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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.
I dont buy into the inch per gallon thing. No way.

And the tank has a 50 watt heater, double rated filter (used to have goldfish in here) and is well on it’s way to cycling, fishless of course (ammonia just spiked), which is why i’m thinking about how to stock now, waiting for the nitrites and then nitrates. I want to know what to get when It’s cycled.

Thanks Cherri, that’s good to think about.
Thanks for the help, I’m going to keep it open for a few more days to see any other opinions.

I’m kindof limited on selection by my LFS, but it’s something I’m choosing to do, because I REFUSE to go to petco, and I love the people at this shop and how they treat their fish. They make you bring in a water sample, and they know what size tanks folks have, they practially make you do a homecheck . The prices are a little higher than your average petshop, but I’ve never got a sick fish from them, and all the old Chinese men buy their goldfish there. I trust them, so it’s worth a slightly limited selection.