Look what the storms washed up onto the beach
Just after the video for my last blog was taken, I kept seeing dark shapes being swept past my crevice home. It…
Underwater photography
Tompot blenny power! How to deal with a velvet swimming crab.
This pesky velvet swimming crab keeps creeping into my crevice home when I’m out searching for food. He doesn’t seem…
Benny the Blenny is reading his book!
Thank you for reading my blogs, I hope you’ve enjoyed them as much as I’ve loved writing them. There’s always…
Danger! Lurking cuttlefish
Talking of marauding predators, I watched this cuttlefish cautiously from the safety of my crevice home. It grabbed a small fish…
“Mini me” tompot blennies out and about on my reef!
Since the baby tompot blennies have settled out of the plankton, three noticeable things have happened. First, they have taken…
Benny the Blenny’s babies (juvenile fish) 2cm long are settling back on the reef
You’ve seen how my amazing my babies were swimming around in the plankton. The ones that managed to avoid being…
Flying about in the plankton, a baby tompot blenny!
Hey, this shows what my tompot blenny babies look like when they have left home, having hatched from those eggs…
Tompot blenny egg development: it’s not bronze, silver, gold like your Olympics, it’s amethyst, gold, silver!
When I’m guarding all the eggs in my crevice, I have plenty of time to watch them develop. Something I…
Tompot girl – BBC Wildlife magazine July 2016
This photo shows my friend Maisie being a Tompot girl. Thank you Maisie, I’m very proud to be starring in…
2’s company, 3’s a crowd, 4’s a harem?
Although I have a good number of eggs to guard already, and I’m busy looking after them in my crevice…