Feeding fry in a community tank

[VikingMummy2015]

I still definitely have 5 Emperor tetra fry in my tank today, after first spotting them yesterday. I’m hoping there’s lots of microbeastie food amongst the decaying leaf litter, but should I add some Interpet fry food just to be sure? I’m inclined to let nature be but now the boy knows we have babies (and has seen the two bigger ones, one still with what looks like egg sac remnants, the other not so much) he’ll be sad if they die.

I feed the tank on a mix of Herons stuff these days. Literally ordered a lot of small samples and mixed them together in a tub so they get a variety each feed. Insect granules, protein granules, dried daphnia and tropical duo pellets to be precise. I have some frozen foods but my executive function forgets to defrost them in time and sensory wise some days it’s just not an option. I add cucumber studded with algae wafers for my snails and bristlenose. Lots of leaf litter and seed pods as well as the plants (and BBA, let’s face it!).

Should I order something fry specific? My dominant male is definitely trying to persuade one particular female into his territory (Anubias and Java fern) so I suspect this may be ongoing now (the botanicals doing their job I guess!)

[fr499y]

Leave it as it is. The biofilm growing on the leaf litter will attract enough critters to keep the fry well fed

[Martinspuddle]

If they have got this far @VikingMummy2015 and as @fr499y says I wouldn't overly worry about them.

[VikingMummy2015]

Thanks guys. I figured that was probably the case but always best to check as I don’t always trust my instincts!

[plankton]

Just powder up some granules or whatever you use until they're about 3/4 inch long.
I have small protein granules for the smaller corys, so that seems to be ok as well.