Does Rummy Nose tetra eat plants?

[fleekk]

Hi, anyone has experience the above eating your plant?

I have just added some and found one doing so.

[avant]

Didn't have that happening to mine.
What plant is it?

[Quixotic]

They are not known to eat plants, but there is a case (or cases) where they do eat fine leave plants, e.g. Hemianthus callitrichoides.
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I am pretty sure most of the aquarists do not have such problems, so I will put it down as exceptions rather than the norm.

[fleekk]

It is those fine leave foreground plant and I guess it is the one and only. It is quite a big rummy nose and it could be very hungry as I did not feed them for 1 day and light feed on the 2nd day as well.

Anyway, thanks for the reply.

[fleekk]

All the sharp tip of the leaf are eaten up by this big fellow... I even caught it eating up the new shoot as well.

I will continue to monitor it and if it persist, I will send him home.

[luenny]

I think they like vege stuff. Mine eats algae wafer meant for my cories.

[illumnae]

mine and my fiancee's both enjoy eating Hikari algae wafers as well, but i've never seen mine eat any of my plants

[checkerboard]

My rummy noses eat the tips of the Blyxa Japonica in my tank previously. So i guess it does happen.

[mok]

My rummy noses do not eat plants when I first started.

A few years after having them in the tank, they decided to devour all my E.tenellus.

Not a single plant of E.tenellus in there now.

They leave the crypts, ferns and nanas lone though.

[fleekk]

A few years after having them in the tank, they decided to devour all my E.tenellus.

I think I have the same plant as yours and I discover it was due to hunger, as i have fed them well now, thus no problem.