| Re: Egg ID?
You can buy bags of daphnia from aquarium type shops, priced between 35p and £1. Phone up first to check. If you buy several, keep them in a cool place if not using immediately.
Buy 2 extra bags.
Empty one into the water butt. They will thrive, and when you use the water to top up the pond it will have newt food in. It also keeps the water clearer. If you use the water to water plants, seive it through a tea strainer or mini mnet on the way to the watering can, and feed to newts.
Put the other bag in a bucket of water in the garden. The daphnia will breed and you can swish a net around for an instant pond feed. To feed the daphnia, allow the water to go green, or you can add a single fish food pellet or a few dead leaves.
The newt is a smooth newt or a palmate newt, but definitely not a great crested newt. They are bigger and often yellowins or grreneish rather than greyish. |