Rabbit snail eating new plants

Is it normal for my rabbit snail to be eating some of my plants. It doesn't touch two java ferns and this one with very thick leaves

These 3 beautiful plants I got last weekend. One had yellow leaves and is a bit grassy looking. The snail ate the yellow leaves but left the green. These other two I have at the back with purple and green leaves it seems to love and is constantly on them. I keep pulling floating leaves out the top of the aquarium

I feed the snail zucchinI twice a week. What else can I feed it and how often should I feed it?

 

It’s normal for most snails to eat decaying plant matter. I’m not sure if rabbit snails will eat healthy plants though. Try substituting some protein into his diet as well with a sinking food possibly

 

The plants aren't decaying they're freshly planted. I'm assuming it like the taste. Most algae wafers contain copper which the rabbit snail is sensitive to. Should I be feeding the zucchinI and cucumber more than twice a week?

 

The plants aren't decaying they're freshly planted. I'm assuming it like the taste. Most algae wafers contain copper which the rabbit snail is sensitive to. Should I be feeding the zucchinI and cucumber more than twice a week?

So if you just purchased them chances are the we’re grown emerged. Even though you might have gotten them from a tank with water that doesn’t mean they’ve been converted yet. Usually the top of the plant has submerged growth and the bottoms of the plant is emerged growth. It usually takes a week for plants to get established with new root systems and another to start to see new growth. Rabbit snails will only eat decaying plants (as stated above) I’ve never seen them eat healthy plants. Everything needs copper but in moderation, most shrimp foods even have copper and they’re more sensitive than the snails

 

They were vacuum packed with roots. I just planted the roots in the gravel. I have a fertiliser. Aquarium soil contains copper so I can't use it. What would you recommend feeding the snails and how often?

 

They were vacuum packed with roots. I just planted the roots in the gravel. I have a fertiliser. Aquarium soil contains copper so I can't use it. What would you recommend feeding the snails and how often?

I would do frozen bloodworms as the meat and everything else veggie. Zucchini, blanched lettuce, algae wafers, and spirulina wafers

 

Mine devour Brussel Sprouts.

 

The fish devour bloodworms. The snail may get tiny bits but the coreys probably find them before. I feed bloodworm every saturday. How often should I be feeding the snail its own veg?

 

The fish devour bloodworms. The snail may get tiny bits but the coreys probably find them before. I feed bloodworm every saturday. How often should I be feeding the snail its own veg?

I would do that once or twice a week then wafers the rest

 

The amount of copper in most food is perfectly safe for inverts. You are right about copper being bad but all things need trace amounts of copper so the amount in the food should be fine for them.

 

My rabbit snail toddles past vegetables and loves eating this certain aquarium plant. It's a lobelia something or over. Green and purple leaves. Do you think it just loves the taste of this plant more than the veg. Zuchinni, carrot and cucumber its passed to eat the leaves of this plant instead

 

I’ve heard of rabbit snails eating java fern. Yours must just have an affliction for that specific plant. I wonder if kale leaves or something similar would entice him?

 

I have two java ferns. One planted on a log and one on a stone. I've never seen it go near them. This lobelia at the back it's even started climbing the stem to get to leaves higher up! First time I fed it zuchinnI it was stuck to it for about 12 hours. Next time it went straight past and ate the plant!

 

I guess it found what it likes ! You know we had a garden once and keeping them rabbits out was nearly impossible. They love to taste each strawberry and I don't want to talk about what happened to the carrots. Btw is the plant a cardinal lobelia ?

 

Lobelia cardinalis I think its proper name is. Green and purple leaves. The purple leaves were gone after a few days. Now its having a go on the green ones. This morning the snail was climbing the stem but because of its weight the stem was bowing! Snail was near enough upside down