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    Posted: 09 May 2005 at 7:51am

In our garden pond (in Wokingham, Berkshire) we have a large number of common newts and possibly some great crested (or very knobbly common newts). We also have at least one yellow newt, resident for the past couple of years. It looks more goldfish-coloured than the somewhat washed-out photo suggests so I'm not convinced it's simply an albino. Size and shape suggest a common newt - is it likely to be a mutation?

 

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They are found every so often. There was one reported to me from a garden pond some years ago and it too was a pale goldfish colour.

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Thanks Caleb & Chris. It has normal coloured eyes so it must be leucistic.

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that's a rare site that newt!
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Some of my friends live near there (I think)

They also have a pond, and in it have:

Smooth Newts

Palmate Newts

Common Frogs

Goldfish

I've been to their house a few times, but never seen a leucistic specimen.

You're lucky to have it in your pond, as they're very rare.

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albinos are very rare, but do you think that is a good thing?
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I'm not sure if it's good or not, but it sure is a treat to see a wild one.
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I prefer to see the normal morphs in the wild, a friend of mine found a
yellow asp viper in Switzerland and I said to him that I would have been
gutted to found that one rather then a brillient zigzag specimen with the
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