Do Snakes Ever Stop Shedding Their Skin?
A snake will shed its skin as long as it’s growing, and snakes grow all through their lives. Thus, a snake will never stop shedding until death. With that being said, the frequency of snake shedding will certainly change during the snake’s life. Younger snakes grow at a faster rate than mature snakes (as is the case with most other species). So a young, fast-growing snake will shed more frequently than an adult snake of the same species. For example, I have a gopher snake that used to shed about every other week as it was growing from baby snake to juvenile. Now that same snake is nearly seven feet long — a mature adult. And while he is still growing (and always will be), his rate of growth has slowed down considerably. These days, the snake only sheds about once every 45 days or so.
