I was upgrading my tortoises' enclosure this past weekend, and I stumbled upon this little treasure! So cool huh?! 
Look at this albino roly poly!
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After seeing this I did a Google search it sounds like they're pretty rare. Thanks for sharing!
Super neat! 
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That's cool!
Watch it for a couple hours and see if it doesn't darken up to normal color.
Like roaches, they are pale like that after a molt.
Like roaches, they are pale like that after a molt.
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Looks like a bot fly !
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My brother works for the City of Coral Springs water department and tells me the in the sewers, he sees on rare occasions white, possibly albino cockroaches.
Very cool! I wonder if he was living under the substrate where no UV light would get through and if that may have something to do with the coloration
It looks like it just moulted. The cuticle of a newly moulted arthropod is soft and often white in colour. It will darken and harden in short order.
I just had a bunch of moulting happening in my Madagascar Hissing Cockroach colony - all different instars. I should have taken some pictures.
I just had a bunch of moulting happening in my Madagascar Hissing Cockroach colony - all different instars. I should have taken some pictures.
I knew there was a reason I liked you… Sometimes it just takes a while to figure it out.
So now that you know, are you going to burst his bubble?
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Who am I to crush someone's dreams?
I don't want to hijack this thread, but you should do a thread in "Other Pets" so we can talk all about roaches!!! My entire colony of Madgascars is from 3 individuals, reported to be WC, that I bought at a reptile show in 1992.
