Acrylic Regrets?

[Telford]

Originally Posted by spikehs

hmmm, seems pretty evenly split.. anyone have any experiance with truvu? I really like the look of the bent courners (no seams)..this is the one I was thinking of...
http://www.truvuaquariums.com/marr0150t.html

Nice tank. I recently bought my tank from a manufacturer called Tenecor. I'm very happy with it and I have to say i've received the best customer service you could ever expect from a company, especially since it's located in Arizona.

[untamed]

Originally Posted by spikehs

hmmm, seems pretty evenly split.. anyone have any experiance with truvu? I really like the look of the bent courners (no seams)..this is the one I was thinking of...
http://www.truvuaquariums.com/marr0150t.html

I wanted bent 90 degree corners, but ran into build difficulties. It would have required a 14 foot long piece of acrylic (mucho bucks!), and a large bend radius due the 1" thickness. While the bend is nice and easy to keep clean it makes for an optically distorted area you can't look through. So...this tends to work only to tanks of a certain size, or hex/octagonals where the bend radius is smaller.

[untamed]

Originally Posted by untamed

One company is called Everclear.

http://etr-inc.com/index.php

I have some of their product on the way so I suppose I'll be able to report how well it works.

I've begun to work on polishing out the trigger-marks in my tank. I can attest that the above products do work, although they require a lot of time and effort. "Triggerfish skid marks" seem to need the 6000-8000 grit to remove. After using the 8000 grit, the panel seems clear, even though I have a 12000 grit that I'm supposed to use after the 8000.

Note that a "Triggerfish skid mark" is a scratch that cannot be felt with your fingernail...so it is not very deep at all. Repairing a deeper scratch (like that caused by falling rockwork), might leave an optically distorted area.

Unfortunately, the process is not so easy that I would consider keeping my Triggerfish.