Will P.Waltl lay without breeding?

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I recently found 3 eggs attached to some plant leaves in my ribbed newt tank. I was pretty surprised as I only have two newts, one adult female and one much smaller ribbed newt whos sex is still unconfirmed. Im not even sure if he/she is of breeding age yet as I've only had it for 5 months and its only about 3.5 inches long with no nuptual pads. Anyway just in case, I've removed the eggs and moved them to a nursery tank. But I'm just wondering if ribbed newts will lay an infertile batch without actually breeding with a male?
 
Yes, infertile eggs are laid sometimes. It's nothing to worry about. Though it is unlikely a female would lay a whole batch without even courting with the male.
 
Breeding is fast and can be hard to miss. There is a possibility that one is a male. Otherwise I have had instances were a female ribbed newt lays eggs with no male in the tank. Of course these eggs were infertile and rotted after a couple days. Hope this helps.
 
ok thanks for the replies. Its looking like the eggs are infertile now, starting to go mouldy so was probably an infertile batch, :(
 
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