How to get rid of rotten leaves

[shaman]

Some rotten leaves will get trapped under the plants. Anyone can suggest how to remove those unsightly dirt?

[Laconic]

You can try vaccuming the rotten leaves. Or if you can use Malaysian Trumpet Snails to help remove them.

[taz_boy]

Are they really hard to reach via prunning scissors??

[XnSdVd]

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[shaman]

But I got puffer and loach inside. Will they kill the malayan snails?

[XnSdVd]

Chances are... yes. But I know loaches aren't very effective snail killers
and puffers aren't active at night... Anyway, I've got a few hundred of them so if a few end up as food that's fine.

[freezze]

regards to puffer fish ... do thy stop eating snail n change their diet to dry fish food?

[kt89]

unlikely they (puffer fish) will change their diet...they seems to be the most possesive fish you could find in planted tanks....ppsssttt...like women...

1) they don't share the same tank, they will kill each other unless your tank is so big where they seldom meet
2) they eat snails in the beginning, then go after anything that moves...from tetra to even shrimps, i got a blind shrimp, puffer fishes suck the eyes of the shrimps off...
3) they rather die then to eat fish foods

In summary
either you dun have them or only have one which solve your first problem but create another.

Note: they are not easy to catch....

[freezze]

but my puffer seem to have a liking for dry food.. weird huh... and also it like to munch on the gravel...

[the_r0ck]

snails help initially. the common snails in my tank helped to clear up the dead leaves of the elatine tiandra but over time they took over and I had to use medication to clear the snails.