ghostdrive | kokemaru, kokemaru (Reply)

There's been a new addition to my household recently, and it is marimo. 5 of them!

Look, they're smiling! Anyway, marimo are just moss balls so my love for them is probably over the top, but I honestly think they are really cute.

lysanderpuck/Massiel helped me decide on naming them after the Japanese group Arashi. Which was perfect since I love Arashi, and their 5 members equals the amount of marimo I have. Clockwise from the one at 12 o'clock in the above pic they are: Aiba, Sho, Ohno, Jun, and Nino. Biggest marimo for tallest Arashi member; smallest marimo for shortest member.

This is Ohno marimo. He's lopsided at the moment, so I'll be working on getting him more spherical when its time for their cleanings. (Speaking of, I need to do that soon. And to rotate them a bit so their undersides don't get brown.)

Then I was adding more water in their bowl and managed to ruffle Jun marimo's "hair". Massiel found the perfect Jun comparison pic.

My cats are IN LOVE with the water in their bowl. I frequently have to shoo them away. I keep on joking around that one day I'll turn around and the cats will have transformed into marimo kitties on the floor.