WingedSweetheart
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Note I do have a fishing license and also these guys live in my pond right behind my house.
Well I've collected a few newts recently. I don't really plan on keeping them long. I just wanted to observe them and hoped they would lay some eggs for me to hatch out and watch grow. So, I collected a male and a female that were right next to each other. I figured they were getting ready to start their courting.
Long story short the female is now gravid and I should have eggs any day now unless she decides to reabsorb them...
This is the big male (he really is huge!):
And this is the gravid female (yes that is a tadpole in there. I don't mind if they eat a few):
Now we get to the interesting part.
Yesterday me and my boyfriend were looking around in my pond and caught around 20 more Red Spotted Newts. They were all male, which was kind of weird! We put them all back however. We wanted to find another female. Then when we finally did find a female she happened to be very strange looking compared to all the others. If it weren't for the red spots, I wouldn't have even know she was the same type of newt!
This picture doesn't do her justice. She has so many spots and marbling pattern that it took a while to make sure she was a female (males have black on their legs and toes during breeding season):
So what do you guys think? Is this girl strange or common? Honestly out of the tons of newts I've caught around here I've never seen one with so much pattern!
Well I've collected a few newts recently. I don't really plan on keeping them long. I just wanted to observe them and hoped they would lay some eggs for me to hatch out and watch grow. So, I collected a male and a female that were right next to each other. I figured they were getting ready to start their courting.
Long story short the female is now gravid and I should have eggs any day now unless she decides to reabsorb them...
This is the big male (he really is huge!):
And this is the gravid female (yes that is a tadpole in there. I don't mind if they eat a few):
Now we get to the interesting part.
Yesterday me and my boyfriend were looking around in my pond and caught around 20 more Red Spotted Newts. They were all male, which was kind of weird! We put them all back however. We wanted to find another female. Then when we finally did find a female she happened to be very strange looking compared to all the others. If it weren't for the red spots, I wouldn't have even know she was the same type of newt!
This picture doesn't do her justice. She has so many spots and marbling pattern that it took a while to make sure she was a female (males have black on their legs and toes during breeding season):
So what do you guys think? Is this girl strange or common? Honestly out of the tons of newts I've caught around here I've never seen one with so much pattern!
