Will a Bristlenose Pleco be eaten?

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I am buying a 120 gallon aquarium and it will have 1 Red-Tail Payara, Hydrolycus Tatauaia. 3 Red-Tailed Barracudas, A Male and Female pair of Green Terror Cichlids, 1 Horsehead Catfish, 1 Rhino Pleco, and a Venezuelan orange Geophagus. Will any of the other fish which are mostly predators that get over 10 inches most being 11 or 12, and the Payara getting to 15 or maybe 18 if it grow perfectly but probably smaller try to eat a 6 inch Bristlenose pleco. I will be adding several pieces of driftwood and aquascaping it. Will the Bristlenose Pleco be safe?
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They will try to eat the bristlenose pleco. A 120 is also too small for all those fish.
Payara, Hydrolycus, and Acestrorhynchus are all piscivores and eat fish, and if a bristlenose pleco is half their size, it's pretty much guaranteed food for them.
 
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