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Heavy metals are key components to cause environmental pollution and heightened level of concentration is toxic to the living organisms. In generally food is the main source of accumulation of toxic metals day by day from various source, they include through soil, water and atmospheric dust. Many disorders like cancer, gene mutation, physiological malformation or physical deformations in pregnant women or very young children. May be one of the reason of consumption of indigenous food. Presently people are fascinate to have fish is the one of the most important ingredients in the daily diet due to this rapid growth of consumption and different practices to produce the aqua products based on the demand. Hence forth the present study focused on intoxication studies on the consumption of freshwater catfish namely Heteropneustes fossilis, collected from different aqua farming cultures. Aim of the work is to predict the different adverse effects of LC50 of lead and cadmium and mortality, behavioural and haematological studies.