What do you like best? Acrylic or glass??
- Thread starter Snowflake311
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acrylic, no contest.
- higher strength
- higher resale value
- waaay better clarity than glass
- better insulator than glass
- much lighter in weight
- no silicone that wears out
only downside is that it scratches easily. if youre careful, you can keep an acrylic tank looking new for years
- higher strength
- higher resale value
- waaay better clarity than glass
- better insulator than glass
- much lighter in weight
- no silicone that wears out
only downside is that it scratches easily. if youre careful, you can keep an acrylic tank looking new for years
I am a fan of glass. I have a couple scratched up acrylic tanks from multiple instances of one piece of sand getting under a algae scrubber. The most clear and beautiful private tanks I have seen were starfire glass. The most beautiful public tank was acrylic with no signs of scratches.
That being said, when I get a tank bigger than 300 gallons it will be acrylic (or wood with an acrylic window).
That being said, when I get a tank bigger than 300 gallons it will be acrylic (or wood with an acrylic window).
Glass. It weighs a ton, but it doesn't scratch that easy. I'd rather have a heavy tank with clear glass, than a light tank with scratched acrylic.
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