Strands have grown from the disk of culture like tentacles, after 12 hours. I think the culture is still living - not that it's falling apart. Going to keep an eye on it for anything untoward, like vinegar eels. I have been putting off researching what those really are. I should do that.
Is this the Kombucha? Are eels floating at the bottom of a kombucha bottle? 
@generica @Zoonie I just learned about them as a possible problem. Since I'm buying the SCOBY from a place that I don't know, even though it has tons of good reviews and the only reviews are people whose scoby died before they got a good culture, it is something I'll check. The articles I've read say it happens in raw vinegars. They float to the top where there's more oxygen.
@generica @Zoonie It's very rare, but some people will use vinegar to get the ph of their first ferment to a certain level, and some people who are into the raw stuff use that. As long as the scoby is free of raw vinegar and I don't let the kombucha turn to raw vinegar, it will be fine. They're not parasitic anyway.
@generica @Zoonie CN: wiggly things in liquid - this woman took a video of hers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb6jWGdGhS8
Omg no. Thank you for the info. Now I feel like I need to look for these in the store-bought stuff
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@stillinhere @generica wow, that video is astonishing. Where on earth are their eggs in the whole deal?
@Zoonie @generica From what I've read, these things occur naturally in vinegar making. So if the person cheated and added vinegar, and it was the super-hip raw vinegar, it is more likely to have these https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbatrix_aceti They are used for fish food, apparently.
I like my microbes microscopic. 👀
@stillinhere sounds terrifying!