Earth Eater Setup

[vfrstephen]

I plan on getting a 72 x 18 x18 tank (100 gallon aprox.) for my eartheaters 4 x green horseface, 1 x red horseface, 3 x threadfin acara, 3 x orange heads and 3 bristlenoses and maybe a group of tetras. Filtration 2 x eheim 2217.

Does this setup sound over crowded/ok? Thanks for your advice.

 

[pjsmetana]

Sounds a bit heavily stocked for a 100g... but it is long, and heavily filtered... so it might be ok.

 

[JK47]

I plan on getting a 72 x 18 x18 tank (100 gallon aprox.) for my eartheaters 4 x green horseface, 1 x red horseface, 3 x threadfin acara, 3 x orange heads and 3 bristlenoses and maybe a group of tetras. Filtration 2 x eheim 2217.

Does this setup sound over crowded/ok? Thanks for your advice.

Yes overstocked. The term "horseface" is generally used for geos from the altifrons complex (altifrons, abalios, dicrozoster etc..) and can/will reach 10". For a tank that size (a 125g footprint) I would stick to the orange heads/BN plecos. I keep a school of orange heads in a 125 and am happy with it since they stay in 6" range as adults. Maybe 5-6 indeviduals. If you don't take this advice at least don't keep the "threadfin acara" (Acarichthys Heckelii), they need a much larger tank and be pretty hard on one another in small numbers.

Mixing small numbers of different species is going to result in torn up fins/missing filaments.. Trust me.