After I discovered one of the cockroaches was white and it's old skin was in the container I checked on them more frequently that day. The white one got darker and darker all day. By the next day it was almost all the way brown again with white spots. The most curious thing though was that the skin that was shed started disappearing throughout the day and I found the white cockroach near it at one point. I think it may have eaten the old skin because it was half gone by that night and all the way gone by the next day.

Turning Over a New Leaf

The cockroaches haven't been doing a whole lot with Stacey and me. They wouldn't really eat anything we gave them and they mostly just sat around all the time. Last night I put some more of their green food from the store in and they were up running around the cage. I watched them for a few minutes as they crawled around. Then I went to bed. This morning I walked passed them and noticed that one of them was white. I actually freaked out a little. I brought them into the light and saw that one of them had shed its outer layer, the brown part, and was now white. It was on top of the other and they were chattering. The old skin is just laying there in the dirt. The white one ended up burrowing down into the dirt. I got a few pictures but they weren't very good because of my camera.