Advantages and disadvantages of acrylic fish tank and glass fish tank
A fish tank is something that many families have. It can add a lot of points to the decoration of the family. At the same time, it also has the function of wealth. In terms of material selection of fish tank, many people will choose to buy acrylic or glass fish tanks, but they don’t know how to choose. Let’s take a look at the advantages and disadvantages of acrylic fish tank and glass fish tank
Features:
1. Weight
The acrylic fish tank is very light, only 1 cubic meter 1200kg, while glass reaches 2500 kg, so the acrylic fish tank is more light than a glass fish tank.
2. Pressure bearing capacity
Affected by the process, the thickest thickness of the glass fish tank is 19 + 19 laminated glass, and it is not recommended to increase the strength by tempering. However, after tempering, the corresponding index of the glass cylinder burst is increased, which is easy to burst. However, the acrylic fish tank can generally achieve a 150 mm thick integrated plate, and its own compressive capacity is stronger than glass.
3. Transparency
The transparency of the acrylic material glass is generally 92-96%, and the transparency of the ordinary glass is 83%, so from the perspective of transparency, acrylic is better.
4. Plasticity
Glass hot bending process is subject to many restrictions, but the acrylic plate has good thermal bending performance, and it has a certain degree of flexibility, hot bending modeling is more convenient than glass.
5. Thermal insulation performance
Due to the thickness and density of the material, the thermal insulation performance of the glass fish tank is inferior to that of the acrylic fish tank.
6. Hardness
From the hardness point of view, acrylic fish tanks, such as glass, in the later maintenance process, the outer wall of the acrylic fish tank is easy to be scratched, which needs to be noted, but acrylic has other advantages, that is, there is no need to be afraid of scratches, because of the thickness, it can be restored after grinding and polishing, but the glass can not be restored.
7. Splicing process
Glassfish tank is generally bonded with glass glue, and the splicing is obvious. In the process of fish culture in the later stage, the glass glue is easy to breed green algae or turn black. However, acrylic uses seamless splicing, the splicing is not obvious or even visible, the surface is smooth, and the fastness is also unbreakable.
8. Price
Generally speaking, the acrylic fish tank has more advantages than a glass fish tank in all aspects, so the price is many times higher than that of glass fish tank
The above is about the advantages and disadvantages of the acrylic fish tank and glass fish tank.
The conclusion can be drawn that the wear resistance of the glass fish tank is relatively good, and generally, there are no scratches, but there are also many disadvantages. The advantages of the acrylic fish tank are very comprehensive.