Do dubia roaches molt or is there something I should be worried about.

[Toothless the cham]

So yesterday I went to my first reptile convention. There we bought about 40 dubia roaches. We got back to my house I setup a cage pictures below and fed four to my chameleon. the rest I let roam free for breeding since I'm breeding dubia roaches now. this morning when I woke up I came downstairs to give my dubia roaches greens. when I looked inside I found one dubia roach that was pretty much Hollow. The rest of them seemed okay from what I saw but that one dubia roach was just gone. is there something I should be worried about like one of them is eating the others or do they just mulch and I should pick the up the shell and throw it away. Any insight would be great thank you.

 

[Toothless the cham]

 

[Andee]

Dubai roaches molt. Just like any other insect and arthropod. Is it a thick shell or thin and papery

 

[Toothless the cham]

Thin I think

 

[Toothless the cham]

Sorry I'm new to dubia roaches

 

[Andee]

Sorry I'm new to dubia roaches

It's ok sweetie I'm not trying to sound insulting. Just making sure you know that all arthropods and inverts molt. It's how they grow. Might have come off rude cause I'm sick and not typing right XD. But papery means it was a molt. The thicker kind of crunchy shells are eaten bodies that have already died usually before being eaten by nymphs unless you have a cleaner crew.

 

[jamest0o0]

The nice/gross thing about roaches, when one dies that's just an extra protein meal for the colony. Same goes with the frass... they're pretty much self cleaning

 

[CamrynTheCham22]

Plus chameleons usually love the freshly molted white roaches. They are soft and different from the usual. Some chams go crazy for em

 

[Toothless the cham]

Should I throw out the shell or just let it be

 

[Andee]

Just let it be, they'll clean it up and it's good for them to get a bit of extra nutrients from it.

 

[Toothless the cham]

Just let it be, they'll clean it up and it's good for them to get a bit of extra nutrients from it.

Thanks