acrylic tanks

[Paul_S]

Is Reefscape the only Australian company that makes acrylic tanks?

http://www.reefscape.com.au/Acrylic_Aquariums.html

[Ged]

Some impressive tanks.

It is worth noting that Reefscape only build large acrylic aquarium tanks, no custom tank under 1000mm high will be estimated.

[Paul_S]

Thanks Ged, I missed that.

My next tank is going to be a 8 footer and I was wondering if an acrylic tank might be cheaper.

[dave1800]

Paul , recently went through the exercise of trying to buy / build a round corner acrylic tank ,

Local builders very expensive , can source from USA or China however as a SINGLE tank

especially under 4ft in size it still worked out much easier / cost effective to buy low iron

or "starfire" glass or equivalent . The odd thing is that in USA these GLASS tanks are more

expensive than there locally produced acrylic tanks and they all want Glass .

It seemed easy to fly an acrylic tank in but when you get to the final bottom line was not that easy .

There is a way if a group that want acrylic tanks get together and ship them as one unit to

keep the freight cost down . Trust this helps

[Paul_S]

Thanks Dave. I noticed on USA forums and Youtube that the Yanks pay very little for acrylic tanks. I guess that they have a lot more producers of acrylic tanks that help keeps the price down. There is also a US pet chain that does a $1/gallon tank sale, that means around $60 for a 4'x18"x18" and $160 for a 6x2x2. Lucky Yanks.

[firthy13]

I have had acrylic tanks before and hated them. They scratch so easily. They are not worth the money. Go for a starfire glass tank.

[dave1800]

Paul more like USD $ 400 for new solid round corner 4 ft tank from what

I found out . Some of the US made acrylics tanks are quite light on the

material thickness

There is however a $$ case for acrylic tanks the larger the Tank Dims .

Its just transport cost and agree need to be more careful re scratches .