Snails eating my lotus...help

[HOWELL]

As some of you may remember my lotus was growing so vigorous and then yesterday I saw it all murky and kinda losing it leaves, today when I looked if there was something going on I saw snails in the downward part of the leaf, are they doing that to my lotus...even if they were not I got rid of them, I just kinda squished them, feel bad though.
But the thing is question is are they doing that to my lotus?

[miguynmkoi]

That happens to my lily pads when they are getting old or damaged.  More often than not there will be a snail underneath eating the decay.  Just pick them off and feed them to turtles or squish them.

[HOWELL]

I saw 3 of 'em on a new leaf and the leaf kinda looked decaying and so that made me realize it may had been them.
That is why I squished them all.
There were not that many but the worst leaf looks like if someone sucked all of the inside and now looks like dead but some others are fine and there are 2 new leaves coming up one I may say kinda looks aereal.

[KatFish]

My best advice would be to take a peek every so often and look for snails.  Pick and squish until the problem is solved.

[PondmaninAL]

Chances are, Howell, is that the leaf started dying first then the snails started eating it. Just be glad that you don't have sandwichmen to deal with.

[HOWELL]

Thanks Katfish...
And thanks Scott but what sandwichman is? that just cracks me up....

[PondmaninAL]

Sandwichmen are the larvae of the China Marks Moth. They wouldn't crack you up if they attacked your lotus or water lilies.

[HOWELL]

Ok, now I hate sandwichman even though I do not know them, but yeah death to all the sandwichman out there....
I will squish all of my snails and look for more all of this days, they are going down...