What are the advantages and disadvantages of hot-bent glass fish tanks?
Hot-bent glass fish tanks are beautiful and diverse, and low in price, but they are low in safety, easy to burst, and have poor ornamental properties. When choosing, you need to weigh their advantages and disadvantages, especially when they are used in medium and large fish tanks, you need to pay special attention to their safety.
Hot-bent glass fish tanks are curved glass fish tanks made by heating ordinary flat glass to soften it, forming it in a mold, and finally annealing it. This type of fish tank has a unique aesthetic and diverse usage methods, and has attracted a large number of consumers with its low price, but it is less safe, easy to burst, and has poor ornamental properties. The fish will deform at the arc. When choosing, you need to weigh its safety and ornamental deficiencies.
The advantages and disadvantages of hot-bent glass fish tanks are very obvious. Its advantages include light weight, not easy to break, high tolerance strength, high transparency, smooth surface and no bubbles. However, the corresponding disadvantages are also obvious. This type of fish tank has low safety, easy to scratch, easy to burst, poor ornamental effect, fish will deform at the arc, and poor transparency. Therefore, pet lovers need to weigh the pros and cons according to their personal needs when choosing a hot-bent glass fish tank.
Due to the low production cost, the price of hot-bent glass fish tanks is relatively low, and can even be described as cheap, which is the most attractive place for consumers. In addition, the curvature design of the hot-bent glass fish tank makes its appearance round and the lines smooth, breaking the monotony of flat glass and increasing the visual beauty. Hot-bent glass can be made into various irregular curved surfaces, which are suitable for a variety of scenes and uses. In addition, the hot-bent glass fish tank is light in weight, not easy to break, and will not hurt people.
However, the hot-bent glass fish tank is not stabilized at the right angle with glass glue and sealing ring like the right-angle fish tank, so it is easy to burst when the water pressure is too high or used for a long time. Especially for medium and large fish tanks, the water volume is large, the pressure is high, and the risk of bursting is higher. In order to reduce the risk of bursting, the maximum size of the hot-bent glass fish tanks commonly seen on the market is generally not more than 80 cm. In addition, the material used is usually ordinary float glass rather than ultra-white glass, and its light transmittance and ornamental properties are not as good as ultra-white glass. In addition, the curvature of the hot bend will cause the image of the fish in the fish tank to deform, affecting the viewing effect.
Despite many shortcomings, its low price, unique beauty and multi-scene application effect make the hot-bent glass fish tank still have a large demand in the market. It should be noted that if you choose a medium or large fish tank application, it is best to weigh its safety and ornamental deficiencies.
How about acrylic fish tanks? What are the advantages?
Whether the fish tank is for home or commercial use, the choice of materials is very important. People generally choose transparent materials such as glass and acrylic, among which acrylic is very popular.
The outstanding advantage of acrylic over other transparent materials is that its light transmittance is very high, above 93%, which means that the acrylic fish tank has a higher clarity; and it is not as easy to reflect light as glass and tempered glass, and the visual effect is better.
Secondly, the density of acrylic material is relatively low, only about 1.2g/cm3, so whether it is processing and production, or shipping and transportation, it can save a lot of manpower and material resources.
In addition, today’s fish tanks are gradually not satisfied with the same shape. Various special-shaped tanks such as egg tanks and lotus tanks are emerging in an endless stream, attracting people’s attention. For commercial aquariums and fish tank stores, if they do not launch new products in time, they will be eliminated by the market.
Therefore, processing performance is also a must for fish tank manufacturing materials. Acrylic has a relatively high degree of freedom in this regard. It can be bent, cut and drilled, and can also be hot-bent and blister-formed; it can be processed only with tools such as utility knives, or it can be placed on large equipment for more sophisticated processing.
In addition, there is no need to worry about whether acrylic fish tanks are more likely to break. Acrylic is much stronger than tempered glass in material strength, and there are no weak points on the four corners of the plate, so it will not be damaged during normal use.