Thanks for the optimism 
She was looking OK but taking a while to shed her shell - too long for my liking so i got the tweezers out ;+}
This was her at 10:00, stripped off the shell but she was still a bit 'glued', as you can see in betweetn her jaws :
So i (very delicately with computer tweezers) cut the glue, and this is her at 22:00, 12 hours later :
I'm calling that day 1, EC around 1.1, pH around 5.9.
steely
She was looking OK but taking a while to shed her shell - too long for my liking so i got the tweezers out ;+}
This was her at 10:00, stripped off the shell but she was still a bit 'glued', as you can see in betweetn her jaws :

So i (very delicately with computer tweezers) cut the glue, and this is her at 22:00, 12 hours later :

I'm calling that day 1, EC around 1.1, pH around 5.9.
steely