Thanks for all your help. I'm of to the nursery to but water forget me not!
Do newts need any special conditions in the pond?
If I buy eggs, what do I need to do to make sure they survive and thrive?
How do they get there in the first place?
I am a newt a holic...started when I was about 11, we would go 'newting' in a local pond (much to my horror now) and I would take home a couple (more horror). My mum came to tuck me up one night and to her horror she found a newt wrapped in wet toilet paper in my hand next to my open mouth as I slept.
I would never dream of taking things plant or animal form the wild now, but in those days all the children did it, and boys would be collecting birds eggs!!! thank goodness things have changed. Though on the flip side both my brother and I developed an enormous love of nature conservation from those early days of taking from the wild.