At last the sea temperature is rising!17 May 2018Things are looking up now the water temperature has increased to 11 degrees after the warm Bank Holiday. Bradley has…Read more
Tompot blennies egg-laying “Eggscitedly” and “Eggsstaticly!”14 May 2017I’m “eggscited” and “eggsstatic” now I have a full raft of eggs to look after! That’s because this spring I’ve:…Read more
Look what the storms washed up onto the beach17 March 2017Just after the video for my last blog was taken, I kept seeing dark shapes being swept past my crevice home. It…Read more
Tompot blenny power! How to deal with a velvet swimming crab.23 January 2017This pesky velvet swimming crab keeps creeping into my crevice home when I’m out searching for food. He doesn’t seem…Read more
Benny the Blenny is reading his book!16 December 2016Thank you for reading my blogs, I hope you’ve enjoyed them as much as I’ve loved writing them. There’s always…Read more
Young tompot with attitude!8 December 2016Our first big winter storm (called ‘Angus’) would have sent the cuttlefish jetting off to deeper water, thank goodness. The…Read more
Danger! Lurking cuttlefish13 November 2016Talking of marauding predators, I watched this cuttlefish cautiously from the safety of my crevice home. It grabbed a small fish…Read more
Benny the Blenny’s babies (juvenile fish) 2cm long are settling back on the reef13 October 2016You’ve seen how my amazing my babies were swimming around in the plankton. The ones that managed to avoid being…Read more
Flying about in the plankton, a baby tompot blenny!12 September 2016Hey, this shows what my tompot blenny babies look like when they have left home, having hatched from those eggs…Read more
Nosy fish – keeping watch. The eyes have it!7 July 2016I’m keeping watch for predators and intruders. You can see from this video that I have unusual eyes and can…Read more