Stringy lager starter?

[mcpusc]

I started growing starter from a slant of Czech Pils yeast a couple days ago. I started with maybe 200ml 1.040 wort; didn't see any activity for the first couple days. It's on a stir plate at room temp probably 55 degrees (unheated area)

This morning there was a stringy something swirling around the top of the starter. The starter smelled good, but I've never seen anything like this before.

This is the first time I've brewed at this house and we have a bit of a mousture/musty problem this time of year. Thus I'm worried about a mold infection, but the wort doesn't have any smell I'd associate with mold, just a slight malty alcoholic smell.

Is stringyness normal for lager yeasts?

 

[724b]

I believe that Stringy or Ropey is generally a sign of infection.

 

[trigger]

Can you post a picture?

My kombucha gets stringy, but my starters don't. It might be an infection, hard to tell without seeing it though. Also, when I start a new scoby it just smells like sweet tea for the first few days while the yeast work, and doesn't pick up the bacterial smells for a couple weeks. The bacteria seem to work a lot slower.