Xerxes appears to have a problem. Before the last shed (1week ago) he appeared to have a general cloudyness in one of his eyes (which looked like some dimpling or result from some burrowing activity. He has since shed, both eyecaps were present in the shed and now I have this problem - both eyes don't seem 100%. The eye with the previous problem still looks the same and the other eye looks terrible. In some ways it looks as if it's a retained eyecap but then again I'm not sure.
I decided to soak it and investigate using tweezers today. I can grab the surface of the eyecap, it appears looser than it should be but is firmly connected. I could try some prolonged soaking but every shed has always produced two intact eyecaps ... could he have possibly made two at any given time?