Albino,Sick or Mating??? Newt Alert!

[iminei]

Hi there,
imagine my surprise on my daily inspection of the pond to find this little fellow/lass!
Is he/she an albino or in his mating colours??? he/she was really really pale, with bright red gills.
There was an incident early this year when clearing some debris from the pond i spotted from the corner of my eye a bright silvery flash through the water...i thought at the time it might have been a small fish though couldn't think for the life of me how i could have acquired a fish in my wildlife pond...now i'm pretty sure this was the mystery flash...
So does any one out there have any answers?????
I have uploaded two pics of the newt, but now cant find them or work out how to include them, D'oh!!!!...any help???

[AshLee]

Can't find them either

[hedgehugger]

At the top of the page is a button 'Images'.
If you click that and then click the 'My Photos' button, your images will be there. If they aren't just re-upload them

I have uploaded images in the past but need to do them again as they seem to get lost somehow. Probably me but I blame the forum fairies!

[iminei]

WOO HOO!!!!! At Last the technophobe does good!!!!

[Dogghound]

Its an albino neotenous newt, basically one which has not developed into an adult but has still grown. This usually happens in nutrient poor water its like an axolotl.

[iminei]

??????????
WOW!!!!! Really???there are plenty of normally coloured (brownish) newts and frogs and taddies in the pond too.
Is it rare?
Is it ok?

[Dogghound]

Its not common, the newt will be fine although would die out of water.

[iminei]

so best to leave him? her? in the pond where he/she is obviously doing very well?
nutrient poor? is that bad? good? the other newts/frogs/tadpoles all seem to look ok and develop normally...so....
we also have slow-worms, now if only I had a toad, my wildlife pond and garden would be complete!!! Aaaahhh!

[Moonmoth]

IF I had an Albino Neotonous Newt My pond would be Double Extra Perfect !!!!

[iminei]

thank you