Has anyone successfully repaired scratches on an acrylic aquarium with the fish inside? I scratched mine with my algae magnet cleaner like a dumbass. you can feel them with your fingernail, but not super bad.
I scratched my acrylic display tank
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There is a few youtube tutorials that show how to do it. iim not sure how i feel about sanding acrylic with stock inside. but they say in the videos that its fine. i believe someone makes a magnet product now like the algae remover that has sandpaper on the one side.
its all on the outside. i had some dirt or something in the magnet algae scraper, and i didnt catch it in time. i have acrylic scratch repair from novus, but i am not trying to do it without talking to someone that has done it before. i got the tank from acrylic creations, i will call them today.
outside is simple. its not any different then polishing a car. depending on the depth of the scratch your going to start at a lower grit and work your way up to the polish. i think i started with 200 and went up in 200 grit intervals up to 3000 then jumped to 5000 and 8000. then a polishing paste with buffing wheel.
Before you start using sandpaper, suggest you look at a Novus polishing kit for acrylic. For me I would be too nervous to use sandpaper. But that's me.