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Can i feed my 50 cm trigornatus with trout that came from saltwater

If your asking..............will it kill the caiman? then the answer is likely no. But I wouldn't make it a staple of the diet.

CD

>>Can i feed my 50 cm trigornatus with trout that came from saltwater

I have fed my smaller crocodilians many items from the sea (mackerel, crab, shrimp, oysters, mussells, squid, cuttlefish, octopus, clam, scallops, lobster and others) without ever experiencing any ill effects. But I must say these items were never their "staple foods" but more of perepheral treats to enhance their diet and to stimulate their captive experience. (crocodilians actually "like" different tasting foods and become very excited by them). But again,.. I have never experienced any negative effects when feeding items from a saltwater environment.

>>Can i feed my 50 cm trigornatus with trout that came from saltwater
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Believe in yourself and your abilities and you can accomplish anything.

Animals that come from a salt-water environment are no more salty than animals from anywhere else. There is a limited range of sodium that animals can tolerate in thier systems and that number is very similar between all. The animals from the salt environment have developed ways of ridding thier bodies of the excess. Think about it, the last time you ate seafood, (without spices added) did it taste salty?

As the other two posters stated, variety is still key. The animal shouldn't be fed exclusively on that diet (or exculsively on any other for that matter.

Bill