i think ur refering to the h. spinifer
in about 1 moult or two. At the moment they are rather "skinny", aprox 7cm carapax and mesosoma lenght male and 5,5 female.
lol down here they would prollly b soled as p. imps for about 20eu. and im in cy (everything is expensive here)
. I like them too but, I think they are hyped up, esp. when it comes to size even though they can get big. I have never seen a "big one" next to a ruler. Most I've seen look like they're around 5 to 6 inches, like a nice sized emp. They're hard to get so people want them. Also, after reading some about them, it looks like there might be different varieties, maybe some populations having larger individuals and others not, kind of like the Savanna emp and Forest emp. I'm thinking this because I read there were specimens from populations ID'd as different species over the years, but later they decided they were all the same species. So they probably at least look different at first glance in some ways. I'm just speculating there, I don't really know.There a couple of exceptions, as in H.swammerdami, H.mysorensis etc etc