...and then it may. Below is a fuzzy picture of a tiny little baby newt inside a newt egg. It's in the middle of the picture.


Most of the eggs are rolled into leaves, so you can't take a picture of them at all; this one is between two leaves of a Java fern.
I have put the plants that have eggs in them in two small tanks, so no one gets to eat the eggs or the larvae; there are about 10 eggs in there, maybe more. They are about two or three mm in size; that is slightly smaller than a grain of black pepper, a bit like the size of a coriander seed, maybe even smaller than that.
It's not uncommon for the eggs to die and get moldy in this stage, so I'm not counting on any results, but so far, all the eggs that I can see appear to be doing fine. I've been watching the dots inside them grow for a couple of days weeks now.
I've decided to try to raise the larvae. It's fairly complicated but I'll just give it my best shot and see how far we get.

Isn't it exciting?