I stayed at the Okawa family home on the night of the 16th, and on the afternoon of the 17th, I hit the road and headed off to Yamatoya Koi Farm to catch up with Shiraishi-san. He had no Koi harvested yet, so we just caught up on how things have been this Summer, and went out to dinner at my favourite restaurant, up in the mountains.
Whilst at Yamatoya Koi Farm, I checked out a few of his mud ponds in respect of TDS, and other things. As you can see, there's not much room for any mineral content within this TDS level ;-)
As many of you will no doubt be well aware, the 18th of October is my birthday, and I always celebrate it in Japan with the same special people... Hiro-san, and Yuuki-san.
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