Acrylic Crabitat

[TSCrabber]

Now I'm researching ideas on making a giant crabitat.

Has anyone had success with an acrylic crab tank, or do they scratch it to pieces? I'm imagining sand + scratchy legs making a mess of acrylic, but I would prefer it to glass.

[Makena95GT]

It'll provably be suuuper scratched around an inch or two around the substrate top. Most everywhere else would probably be fine. Its fairly easy to polish out scratches but you have to somehow make it a yearly or monthly thing and have to remove everything from the tank to do so.

But. It is lighter than glass and also has more clarity. Easier to polish out scratches as well.

[wodesorel]

Even glass gets the crap scratched out of it. If it's used for crabs, it's going to be trashed. The only nice thing about acrylic is you can polish the scratches out, to a point. One of our long term crabbers had an acrylic 75 gallon that worked really well for her, so it has been done.