house plants

I have a couple dead houseplant leaves ( coffee plant). No fertiliser or similar is used on the houseplants. Would these help the cycle? I do have Nerite snails in the tank. Edited to include the plant name.

I am putting this under planted because it will have some plants, though not many. It really is going to be more of a paludarium though. It has been a while since I set up a tank, any tank. Mine have been running smoothly for years. That is until last week when one of my tanks sprung leak. I...