At last the sea temperature is rising!
Things are looking up now the water temperature has increased to 11 degrees after the warm Bank Holiday. Bradley has…
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Tompot blennies egg-laying “Eggscitedly” and “Eggsstaticly!”
I’m “eggscited” and “eggsstatic” now I have a full raft of eggs to look after! That’s because this spring I’ve:…
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…
Young tompot with attitude!
Our first big winter storm (called ‘Angus’) would have sent the cuttlefish jetting off to deeper water, thank goodness. The…
Danger! Lurking cuttlefish
Talking of marauding predators, I watched this cuttlefish cautiously from the safety of my crevice home. It grabbed a small fish…
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…
What a mouthful! How not to inspect the inside of a conger eel’s mouth!
One of the tompot blennies living on a reef nearby recently came to a grizzly end in the mouth of…
The view out of my window – a few weeks ago
For the first few weeks that I was looking after my growing raft of eggs, the view from my crevice…
The egg thief – Connemara clingfish
The eggs survived storm Katie and I’ve had great fun over the last few weeks. Several female tompot blennies have…