UMMM....Turning over if you fall down...exactly how is that simply a problem in an aquarium? Exactly how in the ocean do they manage to turn themselves upright, or manage to never get flipped over? I don't sit back and watch anything die. I don't buy Astrea snails, nor flame scallops. Some critters just don't belong in our fish tanks. Astrea snails must reproduce in super abundance if they have not evolved enough to survive if they flip over, which IMO is a myth because it makes no sense to me, if they are really too stupid to upright themselves, how can the species survive? One thing I can say...I am not going to put a snail in my tank, that I have to watch to make sure they don't flip over....Your rant has no bases.
Astrea's aren't built for crawling on glass or the sides of rocks or even digging through sand. They're built for flat areas of the sea. Which is how they manage to not get turned over. Research of the species will tell you that, if in fact, you or anybody for that matter, have done his/her research on the animal. Evolution is not a myth. It's a proven scientific fact, if evolution is what your referring to.
As far as "belonging" in our fish tanks, No sea creature "belongs" in our fish tank. Fish tanks weren't created before the oceans. Ocean inhabitants don't evolve (yes, there's that word again) to exist in fish tanks. We build a closed environment that suits their needs. Not the other way around.
Chickens, turkeys, peacocks etc, have wings and feathers. Yet they can't fly. How can they survive as a species?
When a whale or dolphin gets beached, do we as humans say, "If they're stupid enough to get beached, or too stupid to turn themselves around and go back in the water, just let them die"? No. We do everything in our power and at great expense to make sure they thrive and survive.
When a fish in our tank carpet dives, and we see it happen, do we just watch it die because it's too stupid to find it's way back in the tank?
When we buy a fish and it turns on our prized coral, do we just say "Stupid coral"?
When stupid people like us run an oil tanker aground and cause an oil spill that covers thousands of creatures in crude oil, pollutes the waters and destroys the beaches do we say, "If they're too stupid to stay away from the oil then they deserve to die"? Again, no. We spend millions of dollars to clean up our mess and to gives these animals every chance at survival.
We take these animals out of their natural habitat in put them in a closed system. A caged animal so to speak. We owe it to them, no matter what the creature, to give them every chance to survive. Even if it means flipping them back over.
We spend hundreds, even thousands of dollars on equipment to make a home for a $20/30 fish yet we can't take the time to turn a $2 snail over?
Your reply has no basis.
Just another thought.
