[AquaticLife] I am a newbie here, and have a beginner question
I think you would be overstocked by over 50%+ but if you used live plants and did weekly or twice weekly 25% PWC’s, it might work but read over the rest of my reply for a better scenario.
The Bloodfin Tetra’s grow to a little over 2″ and a 10G is the minimum sized tank for them. Just a school of five of them would fully stock a 10G tank. http://fish.mongabay.com/species/Aphyocharax_anisiti.html
Neon Tetra’s only grow to 1.5″ http://fish.mongabay.com/species/Paracheirodon_innesi.html so even a school of them would fully stock a 10G under normal circumstances.
Have you noticed the tetras schooling together? Often times, fish from the same family will school together so if you see this behavior, you could just have three of each and let them school together as a group of six. Oftentimes, when schooling fish feel comfortable in a tank, they’ll stray and not school as often unless they feel threatened. Not that this is something you should do on a regular basis but try startling them by tapping on the glass to see if they come together as a school. That is one of the primary reasons for keeping schooling fish in schools so they feel less stressed when threatened. This scenario would be better than trying to cram two schools of fish into a 10G, along with the platy http://fish.mongabay.com/poeciliidae.htm which would fully stock your tank.
Regardless of what you decide, you should definitely get some easy to grow live plants http://www.plantgeek.net/plantguide_list.php?category=2&filter_by=2 and http://www.plantgeek.net/plantguide_list.php?category=2&filter_by=3 which helps keep a 10G tank more stable as far as the overall ecology.
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