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Originally Posted by almostnormal  oh you have such cute froggies, and obliging too. i kepp trying to sneak up on the frogs in our pond but they just dissappear into the water. if you want to encourage newts having some king of plant with foldable leaves in the water might help, as both smooth and great cresteds lay their eggs in a leaf and then fold the leaf to cover it up. we have a weird grass plant that's colonising our wildlife pond (we keep it in check though) and we found newt eggs this year. no great cresteds, but smooth/palmate definitely! |
Hee hee, I had to sneak up on them very quietly to do it, and it took several attempts!
I'm expecting some more oxygenating weed (elodea crispa which I understand you have to keep an eye on so it doesnt' overrule everything) to arrive in the next day or so - so far I have only used hornwort but I suspect that's too brittle for a newt to fold.