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Hi there,

A dutch team made a movie of a group of more than 30 Silurus glanis, some of them more than 2 meters, in the Maas river in the Netherlands.

Good to see that this species is recovering to pre-50s numbers. On the other hand: this will reduce my enhousiasm for swimming in rivers in the Netherlands (I know they are not dangerous, just the thought of such monsters you can't see).

Thijs

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Cool! Majestic animals.

Hopefully, one day I will have a group of glanis like this in one of my 100,000 gal tanks... so people won't need to dive to see a sight like that in awe...

Gotta love the sound something makes at the very end. Sounds like a dinosaur from Jurassic Park. Very appropriate

Thanks Thijs! How is Veel meerval translated exactly?

The title would translate as 'lots of catfish in the river Maas'

I certainly wouldn't trust that they're not dangerous buddy-I reckon I could fit in one

I certainly wouldn't trust that they're not dangerous buddy

Firstly, great video. Secondly, my list of catfish-related deaths only includes one documented for this sp. A boy fishing in Poland was drowned when a large specimen bit his hook, which was tied to his line, which in turn he had tied to his wrist.

-Shane