Honest opinions of Glass vs Acrylic

[Chin_Lee]

from my experience, glass is definitely the way to go with coralline algae growing and fine sand substrate in your tank. eventually they start growing on your tank and I have a 180 acrylic now which is viewed from four sides. Trying to keep coralline off acrylic from all four sides and weekly magnet cleaning with a hammerhead for the past 3 years I've ended up with many scratches. They were fine at first but that green algae eventually gets into the scratches and there is no way in hell I can get them out without doing more damage. I'm going with a 180 glass replacement and using my 180 acrylic for a sump. When I dismantle, I will sand it down and repolish my acrylic tank but that is something I'm not looking forward to as well.