The swarm is still in the box. They have almost filled 3 frames with comb. I was unable to get a frame of brood, so we closed off the entrance, put a queen excluder on top of the nuc, and left a one inch gap on the lid. we assumed that this was a first swarm so the queen would not need to go out on her mating flight.
The original hive is a swarm we caught in March, but they are only partially occupying 3 frames. I read somewhere on here that if you mix wax foundation with plastic it dont work. Seems the first swarm had the same opinion. They did not build on the last two frames.
It looks to me (inexperienced eyes), that the new hive is at least twice as big as the parent hive. I also get the feeling the old one wants to swarm again. I haven't done a proper inspection of the built comb because there is cross-combing and the hive gets annoyed when i move the frames, probably because we break comb.