newts help please

that's a hard one to do considering newts are both land and water animals, best thing I can say, look it up, check out what types of newts you can buy and what would be good for your family and I'm sure there are sites or books that will be able to surely help you with any information on how to take care of them. I just know that the environment for a Newt has to be wet.

When I was a kid we had newts in abundance in our small garden pond. I used to fish them out and keep them in a smallish glass tank (actually an old battery jar that used to run the doorbell system) for a few days in order to watch and admire them. This was not really an ideal environment for them! These days most newts - certainly the Great Crested Newt - are on the endangered list and I believe (but am not sure) that it might be an offence to keep them in captivity. If you wanted to do so, however, any small aquarium would be adequate. It should be filled with ordinary pond water and should include such pond life as water beetles, water nymphs, water snails and so on. These and other minute animals are what newts feed on. Because newts are amphibians, it should also have at least one rock big enough to allow them to come out of the water to breathe. You ought to regard keeping them as a temporary entertainment. After you have learned about them, they should be carefully and quickly returned to the wild.

I have never heard of keeping newts in tanks. They spend most of the time out of the water, except for about2 months when they are mating, so it wouldn't be fair to them. We have newts in our pond in the summertime (I am also in the UK). If you have frogs in the garden, do you have a pond? If you haven't I would make yourself one. The amount of wildlife you attract is amazing, it is well worth it for the amount of interesting creatures that would use it.