Do you smell toast?

[Magickiwi]

Tell me honestly, is this Blue Stag completely toasted? It looks NOTHING like it did when it first came.

The day it arrived:



Today:



Evidently my phosphates are very high. This happened so subtly that I only caught on a week or so ago after my phosphorous checker arrived. I did a huge WC (big by my standards; close to 40%), brand new GFO (I didn't rinse this time but it eventually cleared up). They are now <0.1ppm and I have modified some feeding habit.