Belinda has been back twice more. The last time she visited, she had to turn upside down to lay her eggs on my ceiling as we’ve run out of space on the floor. Of course I had to turn upside down to fertilise them too! It’s quite easy for us to roll over like this. We use our pelvic (hip) and pectoral (shoulder) fins to grip the rock and keep us in position in the narrow crevice. That’s Belinda on the right, she’s cute isn’t she?
Is it a bird or a fish? It’s a baby tompot blenny, just like Benny the Blenny’s babies, swimming in the plankton.
This video shows tompot blenny larvae like my babies swimming around in the plankton. These ones are around 15mm long and…

