General Information: Found in Malaysian and Indonesian water(fresh water/river). Has caught few of them before in Sarawak(East Malaysia) - diving, fishing or netting. My record is about 25Kg caught with my cousin in 1996. It easily grow up to 2 metre lenght and more then 50kg in weight within few years. The size of the mouth could easilly swallow a size of dog. Easily found in Sungei Pahang in West Malaysia and Rejang River in Sarawak. During a raining season, this fish will enter a small river for feeding and trouble for more then 20Km in few hours. Young catfish use to live in the small river and will migrate to the bigger river when they grow up(adult).

This giant catfish easily to catch during the raining season(around Jul ~ Jan) when they enter the small river and usually come in the school - few hundred. The giant catfish will attacked human/diver when it was injured. I remember when i went diving with my cousin to catch this cat fish, one of the fish suddenly attacked his left hand(holding a touch ligh) from behind. His whole hand go into it mouth- including the touch light and he have to release the touch light in it mouth and pull his hand out from the mouth. Hundred of tiny teeth sracth his hand and after a while the fish vommit the touch ligh. And i remember, i have been bited on my toe. So, please take note when you're diving. This species look lovely and could be dangerous too. In history, one army guy died attacked by the giant catfish in Pahang river during diving. For breeding information, Click here..