Glass Vs. Acrylic

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Yeah I definitely want a 300 minimum when I move into my house. I just don't like the thought of the glass breaking and having 300+ gallons of water flooding my place. I just feel safer with acrylic. I have a 120 and just the way it sits kind of makes me worry. I just thought this was a good topic and a good place to ask. If you can't have pleco's or an algae eater you just have to clean it I take it?
 
Pleco's don't clean anything. They make more mess than they clean by far. I wipe the inside walls of the tank down every month or so. Takes 5 minutes.
 
I beg to differ my common plecs do a wonderful job, i have 2 tanks in windows, no back ground, I move a 13" common between tanks keeping the algae off the glass, wood and anything else in the tank. I never have to scrub or wipe down anything, do they poop allot? you bet they do but as I vacuum the pee out of them every week is a fair trade off. have a 14" in the 180, I have not touched the glass or anything in this tank for years. again just a good dang vacuum every week with water change.

this tank been in the window for over a year, never touch the glass inside,

this is the 180, not touched the glass in years,


think depends what kind of pleco you have.
 
I'd rather wipe glass than fight with vacuuming those turds out. I brought my common back to the LFS after a couple months. The turds were too heavy to get sucked up by the Python until they'd been in the tank a few weeks. real inconvenience.

but, I had a gold nugget for a while, coolest fish I've ever had. Loved that fish. He was a mess, too.
 
I use a siphon hose to empty the tanks, not the python, that's just for filling for me, so perhaps my system sucks more than yours? I sink the tube down in pattern and let the gravel filter out, no issue with poopies to heavy, up the tube and out into the rinse bucked for rinsing out sponges, media bla bla bla.
 
guess I should say the 5g bucket is out side, it just keeps over flowing as the water drains from the tanks,
 
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