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Now, onto your question. Mine (lifalilis) took a couple months to get 1/2"ish. I didn't do water changes at all till they were free swimming and could quickly swim away from danger. Sorry, I can't give a size. Even then I didn't siphon the sand, I kept the siphon at the top of the water.