Here she is fresh out of the dirt. She looks all wrinkly and stuff because of her cocoon. I put her in dechlorinated water about up to her chin to soften the cocoon.
The above picture is George after I gave her some time to soak. As you can see the cocoon has been able to loosen up and she's been moving around in an effort to further loosen the cocoon.
In this picture, she's sloughed off a lot of her cocoon. Throughout this whole process I periodically drizzled dechlorinated water over her to help the cocoon soften and loosen up.
This is George after the whole process is finished. The white and brown stuff floating around her is the pieces of the cocoon. After this she was set up as she was just before estivation, with slightly shallow heated/filtered water and all that good stuff. Thanks for looking!





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