Whoosh Storm Freya and Storm Gareth but no ‘Beast from the East’ this year yet!
I’m still hiding away safely in my crevice home. Phew! Well kind of, it’s still like being in a washing…
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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…
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…
“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…