From relatively dull subterranean denizens to beautiful adorned and colored water creatures, newts are popular vivarium subjects throughout the world. The Alpine Newt Complex Alpine newts are currently split up into ten different subspecies.
Females also tend to have a granular skin texture as opposed the velvety texture of males.
It is also more aquatic than T.a.alpestris often spending the entire year in cool ponds. Females are larger and duller than males possessing flaccid folds of skin on the head, abdomen and limbs. Their dorsal colours comprise of opalescent silver and blue mottling with sky blue along the lower flanks. The tail also shows heavy blue and black blotched cresting. Even the eyes do not escape transformation, enlarging and turning gold.