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Maybe. According to most sources, the ramshorn snail does not eat healthy plants, but more than one aquarist has mentioned that their ramshorns did (so they said). It might be better to avoid this snail.
There are three species that certainly do not eat healthy live plants. The pond snail and acute bladder snail, which look very much alike, and the Malaysian Livebearing Snail. The latter is perhaps
Byron is right as always
I have rabbit snails, trumpet snails, pond snails, nerite, ramshorns, spixi and assassin snails, I have 3 heavily planted tanks and the one with ramshorn and MTS snails is taking a battering... I've added in Assassins to lighten the load and the plant munching has decreased a bit.
My java fern and Anubis is the only thing they don't eat.
My mosses, vallisneria gigantea and spirals and Amazon sword are all looking quite destroyed, but I like the snails so I'm not complaining- I just grow new plants in other tanks and add them to this one....there's always going to be someone that's going to eat something in an aquarium