Snake age.

[ConcinusMan]

And one lived with me for 21 years. No lie. Her mate died 3 years earlier. They were both newborn when I found them, about 6 or 7 inches long. I was just 15. She died in 2006. They sure as heck didn't get to maximum size in 3 years though. They never did stop growing. They were only about half grown at 3 years old. They reached about 3 feet when they were about 7 years old then slowed down considerably.

Oh, and I fed them goldfish throughout their lives (bad father, I know) but they also got live and f/t wild collected frogs and tadpoles too, in addition to night crawlers, salmon, and other fish meat. I was always on he lookout for, and collecting a wide variety of wild food for them. I wouldn't recommend doing that though. I didn't know any better.