Very weird formation on scoby

[placething]

http://imgur.com/a/Idxwq

Currently at 2 weeks into fermentation, this thing (beige spider-webby/brainlike thing) formed within the first few days and stopped growing after a couple days, remaining unchanged for the past week or so. Feels spongy and a bit firm to the touch, not fuzzy at all, definitely not mold. Does anyone know what this is or has seen something like this before?

This my first attempt at kombucha, and I probably should have started simple so I secure a secondary scoby to play with... But instead I made a tea with lots of green tea, brown sugar, coconut sugar, bee pollen, korean ginseng, siberian ginseng, and a bit of damiana and passion flower. I added roughly 100ml of organic apple cider vinegar to about 2L tea to make sure it was acidic enough. Its still fermenting pretty rapidly, plenty of visible bubbles making their way up, so I will still ferment for longer if this batch is okay. Smells strongly of a sweetish apple cider vinegar, nothing too weird.

If this is merely something undesirable, but not dangerous, I plan to cut it out of my scoby for round 2.

tl;dr: is this safe to drink/use?

 

[TPD108]

I'm no expert, but it looks like mold to me. You could also send the photo to Cultures For Health's chat line and ask them.

 

[Max_Chavez]

I've had several kombuchas going constantly for the last 6 months and haven't seen anything like that. If it were me, I'd start over. But, if its acidic enough, it's probably safe.

Why not make the kombucha with just tea and sugar and add other things at bottling? Seems like you might have a bit more control that way.