It's been 7 1/2 weeks since we got our lovely new "subadult" checkered garter, Miami. She's doing great.. always hungry, but have to set limits I guess. Anyway, we measured her again today. She's shed once in her time here so far. She's grown at least 2 1/2 inches (after many measurements, by different people, from different pictures, and reverifying her previous length as of course we didn't trust ourselves).

So we're thinking, can adults grow this fast? We had some doubts about her really being a subadult when she arrived at 33 1/2 inches. We're starting to believe maybe she is fairly young at this point (whatever that means), even though she's over 36 inches in length. Thoughts? We have no experience with snakes this big.