Fish and Math- Stocking my 10 gallon tank with the Fibonacci Sequence?

[Gabrielle C]

Ok, If you think this is the weirdest, nerdiest thing in the world, dont bother, but if you have experience stocking a 10 gallon freshwater tank, and can add and subtract, help me out here.

I'd like to stock my 10 Gallon tank with a community that would fit within the Fibonacci Sequence. The sequence goes as such 0,1,1,2,3,5,8,..... The pattern (in case you can't see it) is that you add the a and b to get c, b and c to get d, and so on (0+1=1, 1+1=2, 1+2=3, 2+3=5, etc).

That said, I'd like to stock my tank with a the number of each species corresponding to the Fibonacci numbers (1 of fish a, 1 of fish b, 2 of fish c, 3 of fish d etc.), but I dont want to overstock my tank.

Sound tricky enough?

Here's what I'm thinking so far:
1 Mystery Snail
1 Algae Shrimp
2 Panda Corys
3 Bronze Corys
5 Neon Tetras

Is this overstocked? Any community problems with these fish I have not considered? Any other suggestion for stocking should be in line with the Fibonacci #'s please.

[puresnowchic]

The general rule for "petstore" fish is an inch of fish per gallon of water. However this is pretty crowded especially if you go with some of the more exotic fish. The fish you have listed would NOT be overstocking the tank. Also the ones you listed would be fine together.

However, new fish tanks have to "cycle" meaning they need to create the "good" bacteria that lives in the water. This process usually takes up to 6 weeks. I wouldn't put too many fish in there while the tank is cycling because you would have to worry about doing a lot of water changes and run the risk of loosing your fish.