How To breed newts.

[@quellstrom]

Great video, Mark. Still, I feel the urge to add something for other viewers. Our native newts do not like aquariums that much. (Personally I have some experience with smooth newts from my childhood.) The main reason is temperature and light. They like it cool, I mean really cool. Somewhere around 12 ... 15 °C. Even though they enjoy warmer temperatures on occasion they tend to want to leave the aquarium the warmer it gets. So, keep the aquarium closed with a possibility for the newts to crawl on some floating device because they act very spontaneous once they feel like leaving the water. Raising larvea is not that difficult and is a rewarding experience. Temperature is not much of an issue here. You should set the young newts free once they have left the water. Here again, be prepared for that event. Otherwise they will drown or dry somewhere in the house if they have left unnoticed. The greatest gift to newts are (garden) ponds without(!) fish with tight vegetation and some free water. Once they have established a population (which can be the case already) they will come to breed every year even without invitation ... :-)

[@keith.morgan]

Great video mark, reminded me as a kid collecting newt and frogspawn as a kid in the 1970s and growing on the tadpoles in a big old fashioned white porcelain kitchen sink pond in my garden. Happy days

[@wotrulke5868]

The next David Attenborough 👍🏼 lovely introduction into a fascinating nature trial 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@MARKSAQUATICS]

Thanks Paul. 😀👍

[@marksmith8163]

I have to agree with Paul; Mark you reminded me of Sir David Attenborough. The Carl Sagan of showing young mind of how to breed fish and critters.

[@richardsjokvist5317]

Man i LOVE your breeding videos! They show you in a nice, easy way how to do it with common equipment. Keep up the good work! Cheers from Sweden!

[@tygr1074]

This is great! I had fire belly newts when I was younger I really enjoyed them, but my mom didn't when she found one in the laundry room hahaha. Please keep posting awesome videos my small parrot (Zuri the Senegal) and I watch them together all the time.

[@lauriepetrosky4750]

i love where you live your garden and your tanks I love all your videos.. especially your accent....

[@24bidy]

Hello Mark it is so nice to see you .

[@2tardi]

Mark, that a Great thing you do. Please keep the old garden how it is. That’s paradise for all kind of animals. Maybe you could explain how you know that in the bucket are no dragonfly eggs/larvae. As they are really bad for baby fish.

[@martindorrance8133]

I have a pet newt called Tiny - because he is my newt!!! Ha ha. Thanks for the educational video, Mark.

[@MARKSAQUATICS]

😂🤣

[@grahambennett297]

Really nice to see mark can’t wait for next video

[@djc20]

love it... when we were kids we used to collect toads when they were breeding. we had hundreds of tadpoles... it was awesome... just another great video... what it really means to be a hobbyist.

[@Populiervogel]

Great stuff Mark, we in the Netherlands got them as well, we call them Vinpootsalamander (Fin-footed salamander).

[@seangriffiths9163]

Awesome content. In the south (dorset) we have alot of newts. We use to get the great crested newt but they have mostly disappeared unfortunately. Our club does alot of conservation work on the local marsh for them to make a big comeback. I Cant wait to see these guys hatching.

[@UkAmphibians]

Hi mark I hope it was me that gave you the idea for this video 😉 👍🏻

[@Daniel-lt8wt]

Lovely video mate, and great quality !!!

[@markdemark2445]

Great video Mark, thanks for sharing

[@philthytanks4952]

Awesome! I’ve been getting more into breeding my newts lately, it’s a lot of fun raising the babies up!

[@michaelcocayne8395]

Absolutely love your breeding videos Mark. Please keep these and your freshwater fish breeding series coming. They were much appreciated before, but during this Covid-19 lockdown they are a godsend. Noticed you've forgotten your signature sign off on the last couple videos...cheers from the States.

[@MARKSAQUATICS]

KZbin stopped my outro saying it was copyright. Never mind 😀

[@Ashman2489]

My 2 ponds are full of newts even the great crested newts iv found a few leaf’s bent ova with an egg in so can’t wait

[@chefrarestones1960]

Thank you for doing such a great job of showing just how awesome nature is!!! Your awesome too!!! Love the old pond. It’s just beautiful!!! You all stay well!!!⭐️🌟💫

[@MARKSAQUATICS]

You too.😀👍

[@matheoustargaryen]

@Mark'sAquatics, at10:30 you said no coupling does that not even include Amplexus for these newts, is that correct? Great video, thank you.

[@CamBill]

They’re awesome nothing like them here in qld Australia love seeing different critters and country 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@gabrielforest7146]

love your channel, citizen science is awesome

[@kevinking7860]

Thanks Mark wished i lived back in wales I miss my wildlife pond

[@rachelglover-rowe638]

Do you have a video on wildlife ponds? Loving your films.

[@MARKSAQUATICS]

No i don't sorry. I'll have to do one.

[@pinotgrigio4707]

Another excellent , informative video mark👍🏽

[@Drunken_gecko6890]

Awesome video! We have a bunch in my swedish pond to right now :)

[@socalpawsnclaws]

Hi mark, I’m currently having an issue with my Spanish ribbed newts and was hoping to see if you had any insight on what might be going on

[@seangere9698]

Another note on how you can tell the males from the females is that males will have a bulge at the base of their tails while the females will have a straight taper to their tails. This method works for just about all species of salamanders and newts.

[@alicornish2740]

Awesome video mate

[@Ourfrenchiegirls]

Awesome! Great learning experience!

[@MrMidnight2You]

Love it mark - very unique !

[@Wal48]

We have newts in our wildlife pond. Ever since they arrived, no tadpoles were seen to survive. Do newts eat tadpoles? I’ve also seen the female blackbird take the odd newt for her chicks.

[@MARKSAQUATICS]

They eat tadpoles.

[@Qalmcut]

hello Mark, great video. The egg my newt layed is on a leaf which has broken off from the actual plant, will this affect the egg let's say if the leaf starts to decay?

[@MARKSAQUATICS]

No it should be fine. They only put them in the leaves to hide them .

[@Qalmcut]

@@MARKSAQUATICS thank you!

[@Qalmcut]

@@MARKSAQUATICS Mark I have one more question, Some of the eggs seem to have a white layer of fuzz on them which is fungus. It's quite light now but I'm pretty sure it will grow more,do you know if this is bad for the eggs and what should I do to prevent it? All the eggs seem to be growing too

[@kevindrennaidoo6969]

This is very beautiful mark, have you kept freshwater mussels or clams at all

[@MARKSAQUATICS]

Yes I've kept swan muscles 💪 in cold water ponds. Fantastic for filtering water.

[@kevindrennaidoo6969]

@@MARKSAQUATICS Thanks for the reply, you a very funny guy I must say, always making me laugh, thanks. I live in southern Africa we have a very beautiful bio diversity, clams and mussels are prohibited for sale, so it looks like I will have go out looking for these guys.

[@thombaz]

Hello Mark! I see you are pretty pro in different kinds of aquarium things. I am interested in breeding Nerite snails. Do you ever tried? There are not a lot of information, and not at all good informaition about them.

[@MARKSAQUATICS]

They breed in salt water. I must give them a go.

[@elijahshapovalov3265]

Thanks I just got my newts

[@lloyd011721]

do they not require a piece of "land" to come all the way out of the water? my firebelly liked to hang out on cork bark at night, then spent the entire day in the water

[@MARKSAQUATICS]

Yes they do. I put the stick in there so they could come up and rest and breath.

[@Wal48]

Yay, chickens please. Would love to see from egg to adult!

[@MARKSAQUATICS]

I'm very tempted 🐓🐔🐣🐤

[@darrendempsey3190]

Brilliant content thanks!

[@amberdy12]

brilliant video - much appreciated

[@davesherrell447]

hello Mark I used to have great crested newts breed in my garden pond for 20 + years. But none in the last 4 years. I still get frogs and toads breeding. my pond is fine it's just a mystery why the newts have stopped I was wondering if the hedgehogs are to blame . I do love the hedgehogs though

[@MARKSAQUATICS]

Maybe heroes picked them off over time.

[@davesherrell447]

Hello Mark. please can you help me I had a delivered today of 10 red caridina shrimp. and a new TDS - EC & PH pen like you use. I'm drip actuating them like you've shown on your setting up a shrimp tank for beginners on KZbin. All I got in my 3 foot tank is Red ramshorn snails and loads of java moss and Subwassertang they're all doing great since last October. BUT this new PH tester is Reading 9.03 I don't know if it's calibrated right. On my PH paper strips the colour is showing about 6.5 / 7 I'm scared of killing these beautiful shrimps if this PH gizmo is correct

[@MARKSAQUATICS]

You'll have to re calibrat it to be sure. You can buy solutions on ebay.

[@davesherrell447]

@@MARKSAQUATICS thanks Mark I'll do that and order some now. I've also ordered some sungrow catappa Leaves. I only subscribed to your channel a few days ago your channel is my new addiction ( Love it )

[@kryslinshelton7868]

Can you show us how to breed water salamander pretty please

[@kilmuckridge100]

Hi Mark just a quick Q not to do with this vid.... if I start feeding my swordtails live food would it make them start eating there own babies..thanks in advance

[@MARKSAQUATICS]

No you'll be OK. Make sure you have lots of floating plants on the surface so the babies can hide 😉 plastic or real.

[@kilmuckridge100]

@@MARKSAQUATICS thanks mark 👍

[@Shaden0040]

Are Granny Bonnets also known as Columbine? I didn't get a good look at them but they seemed similar.

[@MARKSAQUATICS]

Yes it is 😀👍

[@MHAquaticsUK]

Love it!

[@willproctor7301]

We live near an old iron ore mine that was flooded in the 80's. As kids we saw palmate and great crested newts in abundance. There were signs up everywhere about them being protected because as kids we used to pond dip and catch them all the time. I went there every year for a couple of decades and saw them and other invertebrates like frogs and toad in abundance as it was a protected area. Fast forward another 10 years and that part of the lake has been drained and houses built on it. No newts to be found on the parts of the lake that remain now. I wonder how these developers can circumvent protection laws to do these awful things to native protected wildlife.

[@juliemcgugan1244]

Money. It’s sad, but even the local council will cave when offered enough money. There’s always someone in the relevant department looking to take a pay-off.

[@russwigley1433]

My brother in law had a pond in London and for life of me I could not work out how he had loads of newts where did they come from I live on the cost line lots of nature and not a single one makes you wonder

[@MARKSAQUATICS]

Nature always finds a way. 😀👍

[@nathanzhang8832]

bucktooth tetra next?

[@MARKSAQUATICS]

I've never bred those before. There scrappy little guys

[@12345Timeout]

Thought it was against the law to do anything with newts in the UK. I had to get alpine newts and put them in my garden pond because there are no native newts around my area. Wish you could get newts for sale in UK may help people move them about and introduce them into new areas.

[@MARKSAQUATICS]

Your not allowed to sell them. Their best left in the wild where they can thrive. All mine are back in the pond now. 😀👍

[@trojon]

Don't release foreign newts into the wild! THEY WILL CORRUPT local populations - this is a huge problem in the UK! Please do not release alien species into the UK.

[@recon_M]

I actually have a fire belly newt that I have now for 7 years

[@Shaden0040]

FYI MD Fish Tanks of England has been looking for some newts/salamanders or eggs to grow out. If you can supply him with some contact him on his YT channel MD Fish Tanks. Thanks. So far he has been unsuccessful in obtaining any. I thhink he is from the greater London area.

[@keith.morgan]

Pup314 he’s taken the tank apart now, probably going to use it for his goldfish. He released a video yesterday..

[@triniscaper3824]

I'm dealing with colomnaris flavobacteria and lost batches of fry does anyone know how to get rid of the worst disease in the aquarium hobby

[@MARKSAQUATICS]

Ideally, you want to place any fish showing symptoms of columnaris into a separate hospital tank. This helps in several ways: The most obvious advantage of a hospital tank is that it prevents the columnaris infection from spreading to other fish. Second, it stops your sick fish from being bullied by healthy tank mates. For their own safety, healthy fish often instinctively drive off a sick fish. In an aquarium, however, the sick fish has nowhere to go, and this bullying will only stress the fish out further. Next, medicine is dosed according to the amount of water in your tank. If your hospital tank is smaller than your main aquarium, then you won’t need as much medication. Medicine can be expensive and treating a 10-gallon hospital tank versus a 30-gallon one can result in big savings. Finally, medication can stress healthy fish. Some can even kill the beneficial bacteria inside your filter. As a result, only use treatments when dealing with a harsh disease like columnaris. By only treating your sick fish, your remaining fish won’t be exposed to heavy medications. Step 2. Check your water quality  As with any disease, to see the best results when fighting columnaris, you want the water in your tank to be pristine. You should already be regularly testing your water with a good aquarium test kit. If you aren’t, now is the perfect time to start. So, grab a test kit and check the following: pH Ammonia Nitrite Nitrate KH GH Not only will good water quality allow your fish to recover faster, but it can also impact how certain columnaris medications affect your fish.[4] If anything looks out of the ordinary, fix it before moving forward with the columnaris treatment. Step 3. Turn down the heat Columnaris loves the heat.[5] The warmer the water, the faster columnaris spreads. Ideally, you don’t want the temperature to exceed 75°F (23.9°C). If your temperature exceeds 75˚F, then you want to decrease it to slow down the spread of columnaris - doing so gives your fish the greatest chance of survival. Now, the trick to lowering the water temperature is to do it slooooooooowly. You see, fish are sensitive to rapid changes in temperature. If you lower it too quickly, you risk killing your fish. For more info, check out our guide to aquarium temperature. So, instead of adjusting the water to the lowest temperature your fish will tolerate, decrease it by 2˚F (1˚C) every hour until you reach the desired temperature. When doing this, regularly test the temperature with a good aquarium thermometer to make sure it is still in your fish’s comfort zone. It’s important that you only adjust it to a temperature that is as low as they will tolerate. Research to find the preferred temperature for your fish. Those with community tanks, meaning with multiple types of fish, need to find the sweet spot where they are all comfortable.

[@triniscaper3824]

@@MARKSAQUATICS thx a bunch I'll follow through on this little article when rebuilding my racking system and sump

[@nathanaelsmith3553]

"it's been really well neglected"

[@MARKSAQUATICS]

Time for a big clean up.

[@nathanaelsmith3553]

@@MARKSAQUATICS will you do anything creative ?

[@johnveeraragoo5852]

I had them

[@Shaden0040]

REcently found out that the msaales when they wigle their tails are wafting pheromones at the female to let her know he is ready to 'mate' release his sperm packet.

[@richardsterne2875]

different and interesting

[@Echee6891]

im wantting to breed them so bad

[@supremecrackerr4687]

That's a weird looking fish

[@dawnflame9642]

It’s not a fish. It’s a newt. Kinda like a frog/lizard cross.

[@Fireyvedel]

Wish you were single I’ve done this too it’s amazing !!!

[@camsdayz8120]

First

[@fishiontanktics9356]

makeup with The trios wow

[@no-knickers-emma1112]

Enjoyed this video