Catfish's Maw

is the fifth LADX: in. It is the location of the LADX:. The entrance of this LADX:, which looks like a giant blue catfish, is located within LADX:. The main tool of this LADX: is the LADX:, which is originally located in a LADX:, but is stolen by LADX:, after his first battle with LADX:. It is obtained after defeating him three additional times. It is necessary to access certain rooms and needed to defeat the LADX:, LADX:. The second mini-boss of the LADX: is a pair of NaN Gohmas.

Entrance to the Maw
After LADX: leaves the LADX:, a LADX: begins following him. He cannot enter the LADX: with the LADX:, and must help it make peace with its death before entering. However, the entire entrance is surrounded by rocks, and thus cannot be accessed by swimming on the surface alone. LADX: needs to dive down on the left side of the rocks and swim through an underwater tunnel to this LADX:.

Themes and Navigation
The interior of the LADX: is mostly sandy floor with brown walls. There also seem to be a lot of purple crystals growing in certain rooms, which can be destroyed by LADX:'s LADX:. Despite this LADX: being in the middle of LADX:, it is actually dry inside, with a few rooms having shallow LADX: and only three rooms being flooded (two of them being flooded side-view rooms).

This LADX: has five mini-boss battles. The first mini-boss is LADX:, who steals the LADX: from a LADX: after his first battle with LADX:. Once defeated, he moves into another room and must be searched for in order to battle again. All of the rooms in which LADX: battles him can easily be identified by the skull-shaped tiling on the room's floor. Each of these four rooms also has a number of NaN Blocks corresponding to the number of the battle that takes place in the room. The other mini-bosses are the NaN Gohmas, who can only be reached once LADX: has the LADX: and seem to be the true mini-bosses of this LADX:, as defeating them creates a portal back to the entrance of the LADX:, unlike LADX:.

The puzzles in this LADX: often involve using the LADX: to cross long gaps. A variation on this is the appearance of wooden bridges which can only be extended by using the LADX: on one side of the gap. The LADX: also has a hidden room that is not on the LADX:, next to the LADX: room. It can only be accessed by diving underwater in a nearby room to enter a side-scrolling area, where LADX: can climb up a ladder to get to the hidden room. The room contains the LADX:, vital for getting to the LADX:, LADX:.

The room where LADX: fights the LADX: is originally a normal room, but since LADX: lives in the walls of the LADX:, it therefore breaks open sections of the walls and floor to attack LADX:. Its tail comes out of the hole in the floor, and rotates around the room, trying to hit LADX:. It cannot be harmed. However, LADX:'s head appears randomly in one of the four holes in the wall at regular intervals. Using the LADX:, LADX: can pull LADX:'s head out and attack his vulnerable midsection.

When looked at on the LADX:, the LADX: is in the shape of LADX:.

Trivia

 * The entrance to this LADX: resembles the giant ALttP: who gives ALttP: the ALttP: in . Like the aforementioned character, it also appears in a circle of stones.
 * The ST: entrance in is also shaped like a giant catfish.

Nomenclature
The name of this LADX: is a reference that the entrance is in the shape of a giant catfish with its mouth open.