I have a celestial too, and I can assure everyone that jamieandrich have a celestial. They can have 'sacs' around their eyes, but the eyes either point up, or up and inwards. Here is a pic of my fish for comparison.
Anyways, IMO there are a way too many agressive fish in that tank for the celestial. We have a rainbow shark (similar to the red tails) and he chased a shubunkin goldfish 3x his size in a 75g mercilessly. The shubunkin is a single-tailed fish, which is the only reason I think she escaped with merely ripped fins. It's good we were only housing her there temporarily. The algae eaters will start attacking other fish when they get to be about 3 inches or so, and will latch onto other fishs' sides and try to suck their slime coats (not sure what size yours are). The betta could definately have attacked the celestial. I'm not sure about the other fish, but I highly recommend moving the celestial to his own tank at least until he grows much bigger. I'm just speaking from experience with my own fish - due to the fact that my celestial has to swim at a 45 degree angle in order to see ahead of him, he tended to have problems just swimming against the current in my 50g. I think your little guy will be much happier in a 10g for a while, maybe with those neons (which you're going to lose to your ghost knife sooner or later, along with the cherry barbs and eventually the goldens.)
If you do end up putting your celestial in his own tank for good, you can build up your golden barb school to keep him company. Golden barbs, zebra danios, and white clouds are some types of fish that do well in temps down to 67 or 68 degrees farenheit. You could keep your tank around 70 to 72 degrees and they would all probably do well.
Lastly, I would recommend doing a little research on the other fish you have in that tank. I don't know much about cichlids but I do know they prefer pH's of at least 8, while the rest of the freshwater fish in there (as far as I know, not sure about the tiger barbs etc.) like the pH to be around 7 or even 6.5. You also have many, many different temperature requirements in that tank: The high end for the celestial (76 degrees) is the low end for at least the cherry barbs and the betta. I have a feeling that as your fish grow, keeping them all together in that 110g will start causing problems, then more problems, then disappearing fish, then disease and death
Good luck with your little guy!
Anyways, IMO there are a way too many agressive fish in that tank for the celestial. We have a rainbow shark (similar to the red tails) and he chased a shubunkin goldfish 3x his size in a 75g mercilessly. The shubunkin is a single-tailed fish, which is the only reason I think she escaped with merely ripped fins. It's good we were only housing her there temporarily. The algae eaters will start attacking other fish when they get to be about 3 inches or so, and will latch onto other fishs' sides and try to suck their slime coats (not sure what size yours are). The betta could definately have attacked the celestial. I'm not sure about the other fish, but I highly recommend moving the celestial to his own tank at least until he grows much bigger. I'm just speaking from experience with my own fish - due to the fact that my celestial has to swim at a 45 degree angle in order to see ahead of him, he tended to have problems just swimming against the current in my 50g. I think your little guy will be much happier in a 10g for a while, maybe with those neons (which you're going to lose to your ghost knife sooner or later, along with the cherry barbs and eventually the goldens.)
If you do end up putting your celestial in his own tank for good, you can build up your golden barb school to keep him company. Golden barbs, zebra danios, and white clouds are some types of fish that do well in temps down to 67 or 68 degrees farenheit. You could keep your tank around 70 to 72 degrees and they would all probably do well.
Lastly, I would recommend doing a little research on the other fish you have in that tank. I don't know much about cichlids but I do know they prefer pH's of at least 8, while the rest of the freshwater fish in there (as far as I know, not sure about the tiger barbs etc.) like the pH to be around 7 or even 6.5. You also have many, many different temperature requirements in that tank: The high end for the celestial (76 degrees) is the low end for at least the cherry barbs and the betta. I have a feeling that as your fish grow, keeping them all together in that 110g will start causing problems, then more problems, then disappearing fish, then disease and death
Good luck with your little guy!
