Too much bowing?

[Fishy-Botany]

Here are a some photos.
It has about 1/2inch of bowing when filled all the way in the center of the front panel, but no bowing at the edges of the front panel.
1/4inch thick acrylic panels. Has a built in sump. 18inches tall and deep and 3ft long.

 

[Fishy-Botany]

Also no crazing in the seems yet. The bowing also goes down by half when the tank is only filled halfway.

 

[M1A1]

Tank that size should be 10 or 12mm, 3/8" or 1/2", acrylic for normal safety factors; 1/4" is approaching 1.0 safety factor.

 

[Fishy-Botany]

Yikes. why would truview make such a tank then?

 

[Fishy-Botany]

Just remeasured everything and the tank is 14 inch wide front to back. 20 inch tall and the panels are 1/4 inch thick.

 

[Jexnell]

Looks about as much bowing as my 55gal TruVu.

My 125 is not as bad tho

Both TruVu acrylic

Edit: the 55 has been running for over a year now no leaks

 

[Fishy-Botany]

Looks about as much bowing as my 55gal TruVu
My 125 is not as bad
Both TruVu acrylic
Edit: the 55 has been running for over a year now no leaks

That makes me feel a bit better. It is supposed to be a 45 gallon.

 

[TwoHedWlf]

Woah. I didn't think acrylics bowed that much. I'm used to glass, where if you can see any bowing it's waaaay too much.

 

[squint]

Bowing is barely noticeable with proper wall thickness.

 

[wannadivesteve]

The commercial aquarium manufacturers rarely use acrylic as thick as the calculators recommend.