How quickly does a 5-year-old hognose snake grow? As animals with indeterminate growth, snakes continue growing throughout their life, though growth slows down in adulthood.
I set out to investigate our snake’s growth patterns. Getting length measurements on Digger proved to be difficult, so I decided to track her weight instead. At the end of the week, after Saturday’s mouse has passed through her system, I extract her from her favorite rock cave to visit the scale. She has so far weighed in around 330 grams (almost three fourths of a pound) and it will be interesting to see how much (or how little) it changes over the next few months.
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