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Javid
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Hello,
I'm looking at buying a new tank (90G acrylic), and I was wondering if people had strong feelings on acrylic vs glass? I've only ever owned glass, but an opportunity that may be too good to pass up has come around and I was thinking of going acrylic. Can you clean coralline off of acrylic without ruining it? How do you do it? Any words of warning?
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Steve_Farmer_Jr
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I hate acrylic. I find it hard to clean and easy to scratch.
cw
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quasidog
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Agreed. The only advantage I found was that it's lighter. Once filled, this fact is moot. What's 40 pounds when the whole system weighs 2000 pounds? I will never own another acrylic tank.
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garyhern
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Acrylic scratches easier, but the scratches are easier to repair. Repairing a scratch in glass is next to impossible. My next tank will be acrylic.
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KeenyStar
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Glass doesn't scratch as easily. If you buy it, be very careful.
George Patterson I prefer Heaven for climate but Hell for company.
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FieldTurf
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I managed to scratch the crap out of both acrylic tanks I've owned, (one was due to stupidity, the other just foul luck) and have not yet managed to scratch a glass tank. As much of a PITA it is to have to empty a tank to buff out a scratch, I'll take the one that ISN'T GOING TO scratch in the first place. <g>
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quasidog
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my 75G glass tank has a couple deep scratches on the inside (falling live rock?) and one on the outside.
those bad boys will not buff out. they 'might' if it was acrylic.
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Squirm-Karamoon
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Don't count on it!! If glass was hit hard enough to have a deep scratch, acrylic would have a GOUGE in it. And it doesn't take a very deep scratch on acrylic to be beyond complete removal without major work.
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