I'd really like to know more about what causes the missing eyes.

My female spider came from a clutch of spider X presumed totally unrelated normal female and there where several no eyes and missing eyes in the clutch. I gave all the eye problem babies including a no eye spider to a friend and he reported that none of them survived (the eye problems seemed evenly distributed between spider and non spider babies, just mentioned the no eyed spider because I’m sure he would have loved to save it if he could). I know both of the parents could have just happened to have a recessive gene for eye problem but I'm wondering if it wasn't an environmental factor with that clutch. All of the normal eye babies lived fine as far as I know and my two eyed spider girl from that clutch is now several years old and doing fine.

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