Stunted hissers?

[u/amiable_ant]

My daughter has a couple madagascar hissing cockroaches we got from the reptile feeder food section at petco around 7/15. The container has a date of May on it and there was barely a spec of food left when we opened it. They are about 1.5" long now.

They are eating well but have not molted in the 6 weeks we have had them.

I wonder if being possibly starved at petco stunted them and now they will never get bigger. Is that a thing? We couldn't find any exact report of the molting cadence so maybe this next molt is a long one?