How Do You Clean A Heavily Planted Tank?

[Steffyboy]

I have a few plants in my tank but always like the look of tanks that are heavily planted on the bottom but i always wondered how you clean it properly.
How do you clean all the poop up when the floor of the tank is heavily planted?
Surely you don't move the plants around?
I'm very fussy when it comes to cleaning my tank and like to get every last tiny piece of poop up so i could imagine with a heavily planted floor this would be a nightmare!!
Any advice would be great thanks.

 

[Noahsfish]

If it's very heavily planted and you can't see the ground at all most people just leave it alone and the plants do the job. Or, you can use a siphon as once the plants have rooted an aquarium safe siphon won't uproot them.

 

[frapadoodle]

Like Noahfish says, clean what you see. If ammonia and nitrites stay at zero, then no worries. It's one of the benefits of heavy planting.

 

[SLIM]

I only vac my tank bout once every 3 weeks, I kinda hafta do it blind so to speak. Like mentioned before, fish waste kinda becomes fertiliser for the plants.
Ammonia and nitrite are never a problem as the plants will also absorb these in healthy heavily planted Aquariums
Heavily planted tanks is a whole other ball game.

 

[Steffyboy]

Thanks for that guys..gives me something to think about now!