Plecos and acrylic aquariums

[jconley]

How many of you have kept large #'s of plecos in acrylic tanks? How badly do they REALLY damage the acrylic? I'm going to be getting a 180 gallon or larger soon and I've always been afraid to drop the money on acrylic because of plecos scratching the hell out of it. I like acrylic 'cause of the great customization options, but I might be stuck with glass.
Please chime in with any experience/opinoins.

 

[Tongue33]

Mine haven't scratched mmy 250 as far as I can tell.... I have one 10-12" and the other 7-8".. My kids have done 10000 times more damage to my tank when i wasn't lookin than my Plecs.. Both Common plecs..

Plus scratches that plecs would put on an acrylic tank in my opinion would not be noticible do to the water

 

[jconley]

Are they common plecos? They don't really have teeth like acanthicus and pseudacanthicus sp. and I have a LOT of plecos lol.
I can only imagine what kids will do to an acrylic tank , fortunately those scrathes are on the outside and easily buffed out

 

[jconley]

I hadn't noticed that you already stated that they are "commons" sorry, BTW fantastic job on your acrylic tank restoration!

 

[jconley]

Anyone else?

 

[StiffMeister]

it will depend on the species. panaques have teeth that will deffo damage and scrape down the acryl. other non wood eating species would be cool i guess.