Talk:Mekong giant catfish

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Go to national geographics website, mekong giant catfish has been confirmed as andromous(lives in both fresh and salt water)

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I don´t know how long it takes untill a Pangasius gigas reaches a length of 3m, but it aren´t undoubtly only 5 years, in the other case, the 3m-speciemen were not the largest one which was caught in the last decades. This large fish grow fast, but even they need many years to grow only over 2m.

I believe the photo assigned to this post is incorrect. This photo is of a Pangasius, common to any local pet store. They only grow to about 3 feet in length, and that only rarely in captivity. The photos of Mekong cats I have seen look much like a traditional catfish, with whiskers and wide mouth, much like a North American black bullhead, but hundreds of times larger of course. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.102.35.191 (talk) 04:31, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed. I put in the wrong species image. -- Lerdsuwa 10:59, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

someone wanna fix the partabout being the worlds largest freshwater fish? it's confirmed they are both fresh and saltwater. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Darkdestruction420 (talk • contribs) 13:11, 8 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have heard of a catfish from the Congo that surpasses these in size, anyone care to explain? --The Lord of the Allosaurs (talk) 02:19, 27 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'm curious about the claim of this being the largest freshwater fish, as sturgeon, which also are freshwater fish (though some will range into the ocean for short times if living in the lower reaches of a river) can exceed 450 kg and the largest can be nearly 1,000 kg; in other words, far larger than 300 kg.

I believe that the world's largest fish claim is subject to debate - from wiki's own other pages on the sturgeon family

"It is the largest freshwater fish in North America and is the third largest species of sturgeon, after the Beluga and the Kaluga. The white sturgeon is known to reach a maximum size of 816 kg (1,799 lb) and 6.1 m (20 ft)." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Creel27 (talk • contribs) 21:00, 21 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Short citations

One full reference is still necessary when using short citations; there are a handful of short cits on this article that I've tagged because of this. Other short cits, lacking a page number, I simply combined with the first reference (using ref name tags). Also, "et al" means "and others"—if there's just one author, "et al" is not indicated. Richigi (talk) 23:54, 19 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]