Chaeto growth....can't tell so well in the crappy picture, but the new growth is really light green and the original ball is still visible as a deeper green. It went so long without me seeing anything scurrying in it, but now it has exploded with 'pods.
The empty unit. Note that too much of the chamber is filled with rubble, scoff, and then read below.
Empty unit on the tank. The plan all along was to move it behind that tangle of cords on the left, which I have since done. I just wanted to make sure if it exploded, it did it where it was easy to clean up.
My one piece of advice, which someday when I am feeling adventurous I will do myself, is to cut or break the inner tube that leads into the "reaction chamber". Rather than have it by 50/50 rubble and macro, you could have way more useful room. I don't mind having the extra cryptic habitat so much because of my bull-headed lack of maintenance on the tank, but it would probably be more efficiently used as macro-space.
