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The pet shop I work next to has just given me some eggs laid by their eastern newts because I have an incubator and breed geckos.
I have no experience with newt eggs. Does anyone know the best way for me to incubate them? Temp? Humidity? completely buried or not? They don't want to deal with babies either so info on raising babies would be helpful also.
Thanks, Sonia

They may not even be newt eggs so this is what they look like
A light orangish colored eggs (3) They range in size from 1/4 to 1/2 inch in length and they were buried coco fiber very damp substrate. It also looks like one was collapsed. They have the same feel as gecko eggs kind of leathery and pliable. There were also various other frogs in the tank. Red Eyed, mossy back hoppers ect. but I think frogs lay gelatenous strings of eggs.
For now I will call them mystery eggs because they even look too big for the newts to have laid them.

Those are definately NOT newt eggs. Newt eggs are only 1/8th-inch in size and gelatinous like frog eggs.

Tell the pet shop they should not be keeping eastern newts on coco-fiber anyway, they are aquatic.
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Thanks, I didn't think they knew what they were doing. I have no idea how these eggs got in a tank they claim only held frogs and newts. They look like reptile eggs to me. I know they had some loose tokays in the store at one time. I think either they have forgotten something they had in that tank or something climed in and laid those eggs. If I remember corectly they even had some chameleons in there at one time. They realy should be changing their substrates more carefully and not mixing breeds in the same tank.

whooops I mean mixing species not breeds.

if they were orange then they were infertile anyway.

>>They may not even be newt eggs so this is what they look like
>>A light orangish colored eggs (3) They range in size from 1/4 to 1/2 inch in length and they were buried coco fiber very damp substrate. It also looks like one was collapsed. They have the same feel as gecko eggs kind of leathery and pliable. There were also various other frogs in the tank. Red Eyed, mossy back hoppers ect. but I think frogs lay gelatenous strings of eggs.
>>For now I will call them mystery eggs because they even look too big for the newts to have laid them.

They are not newt eggs. As was mentioned earlier, eastern redspotted newts lay white centered gelatinous eggs that are barely 1/8" in diameter (as the newt embryo developes, the white diminishes and is replaced by the dark color of the newts). In addition these newts lay a single egg under the water carefully folded up in a leaf of a subaquatic plant...usually 1-3 eggs are laid per plant (the most I have ever found in the wild was 7 eggs on a single plant, but that was under drought conditions so things were crowded with less water in the swamp for the newts to spread out). It is difficult to notice these eggs as you really need to know what to look for in order to spot them. It took me 5 years to figure out the right time of year, the right plants, etc. to find newt eggs. I currently have 3 eastern newt larvae just hatched the other day and 16 more still developing... they are extremely tiny and perhaps the equivalent of bigger than pinhead but smaller than 1 week old crickets. Just hatched spotted salamander larvae look like godzilla to just hatched eastern newts LOL.

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