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Arapaima gigas

Description:

Big fish can be up to 4,5m and 150kg. Originaly from South Africa has been introduced in Malaysia and Thailand for fishing

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5 Comments

JordiPrats
JordiPrats 9 years ago

Interesting Machi, thanks for share, with this big fishes arround the local fishes and ecosytem should be in danger

Machi
Machi 9 years ago

Arapimas have been introduced to Malaysia for fishing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arapaima#Im...

JordiPrats
JordiPrats 9 years ago

looks like an Arapaima gigas, but after check wikipedia it just can be found in Suth America, right?, not in Malaysia...?

ColtMooney
ColtMooney 9 years ago

Yep looks young though

XXD17
XXD17 9 years ago

Arapaima gigas

JordiPrats
Spotted by
JordiPrats

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Spotted on Feb 1, 2014
Submitted on Oct 21, 2014

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