Boiler Glassdome

The boiler glassdome' split from its ancestor, the slarti glasstower. While anatomically similar, it has taken up a drastically different lifestyle. It now participates in a symbiosis with the farming slipskunik, allowing it to grow throughout the global glacier, although with little competition from other flora it can be found on the various volcanic regions that are clear of ice. The farming slipskuniks will form massive burrows consisting of hundreds of individuals, and encompassing the entire vertical span of the glacier.

To accommodate the glassdomes, chambers a few meters wide will be constructed just a few meters toward the surface, then covered in sediment gathered from beneath glacier, as well as the wast products of the slipskuniks that make up the colony. These chambers will be linked by smaller tunnels, just large enough for an adult slipskunik, and over each chamber a tunnel toward the surface will be made to facilitate gas exchange, primarily the release of methane by the cryodome hydroutine.

While because of the close proximity to the surface of the glacier some light manages to leak through, the glassdome's primary food source now comes from the cryodome hydroutine it grows in its central chamber, which has grown proportionally larger to compensate. The only other major anatomical change comes from the re-positioning of the hole in its chamber to a "skirt" around its base, which gives the slipskuniks better access to its fruit. These have become more solid instead of powdery, and will bulge outward before harvesting. Other than that it is similar to its ancestor.