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:…
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Young tompot with attitude!
Our first big winter storm (called ‘Angus’) would have sent the cuttlefish jetting off to deeper water, thank goodness. The…
“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…
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…
Nosy fish – keeping watch. The eyes have it!
I’m keeping watch for predators and intruders. You can see from this video that I have unusual eyes and can…
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…
I’m going to be a Dad again! Eggs in time for Easter
It’s a good thing I got my crevice home clean and ready for my female visitors. Just before Easter, a…