Cycling new tank found snails!!!

Clown Loaches eat snails........but they also get pretty big.

Most loachs eat snails (yoyo's stay small) or place a lettice leaf in at lights out and remove it and all the snails on it in the morning.

What type of snails do you have? The common hitch hikers--pond snails, round shell--do not go after healthy plant tissue, only algae and dead leaves. They are not a problem in a tank that is properly maintained.

No, a dead plant doesn't mean the snail is to blame. Transportation, planting, current tank conditions could all easily kill the plant, and the snail is just cleaning up. What kind of plant is it? Search on ramshorns, as well, to see if that's the type of snail you have.

Common pond snails? No wait, they dont eat plants. Do you have any pics?

Many plants are grown in the industry by placing only their roots on water. Whiel these plants (such as amzon swords) can survive both emmersed and submerged they will grow different leaves accordingly. So when you take them hoem they can often look perfectly healthy and then start to die off. As well some plants suffer a transplant and start to show die off rather quickly when they change tanks. Often it can take many days and sometimes weeks before these plants regain their size and grow new appropriate foliage. I would wait to see if they grow back in.

As for thsoe snails they sound like Malaysian Trumpet Snails (appropriate for you I guess). They are generally well liked in planted tanks as they tunnel throught eh substrate are are good for roots. They typically eat left over food, algae and decaying plants.

One other thought is that alagea has taken over your leaves and makes them look bad. What exactly do the plants look like?