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Does anyone have experience with introducing a male with a female caiman (specifically P. trigonatus)? I have a roughly 3 and a half foot female in an enclosure 6 feet by 4 feet and have located a male slightly larger than mine.. I've heard that it can be extremely dangerous to introduce a second animal and that they will fight, anyone have any notes on this? I do have enough room to build a second enclosure if mixing is not possible. Does anyone on the forum keep larger trigs? Or larger palpebrosus (say, 3 feet plus??)... Thank you in advance for any information. Any pictures of animals or enclosures are always enjoyable also!

Matt

Introducing crocodilians is always a very nervous time. The younger the animals the better the chances of success, older larger animals can do real damage to each other in a very small amount of time.

Personally I think a 6 x 4 enclosure is to small for more than one caiman of the size you mention. In fact I would use the 6 x 4 space as the aquatic area and build a terrestrial area around it just for the caiman you currently own.
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