aztec reef
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Originally Posted by m0nk
http:///forum/post/2666711
That's what I've been told. There's a member here (trippkid) who used to setup tanks locally as a job and he once explained how the acrylic and plastic had different water retention and why the acrylic is better. I wish I was smart enough to explain it too, but most of what he said was over my head and I can't remember it.
that sounds like an interesting theory>. but keep in mind that acrylic is a plastic too.
I know a few things about acrylic though.
Acrylic is a better insulator and helps to buffer the aquarium from temperature fluctuations in the environment. It also allows better penetration of your tank's lighting.
Also its has less distortion than plastic or glass. It has almost the same refractive index as nsw, and theres no bending of light, as it passes from acrylic into seawater.. Acrylic is made out of
hydrophilic fibers and filaments with good coloring response to dyes from filament-forming hydrophobic synthetic polymers having a sheath-core structure with a highly microporous core and a substantially compact sheath and having a water retention capacity of at least 10% wherein the pores in the core have an average pore diameter measured in the direction of the cross-section of the fiber, of at most 4000 A.
Some acrylic applications have fibres of porous structure with high water retention properties. they can have water absorbent fibres with atotal water content of 20-35% of the fiber wweight, when dryed they can form small pores with connecting passages, which promotes capillary action, absorbing water quickly. However this type of water absorbent acrylic fibres retain the physical and mechanical properties of normal acrylic fibres..
http:///forum/post/2666711
That's what I've been told. There's a member here (trippkid) who used to setup tanks locally as a job and he once explained how the acrylic and plastic had different water retention and why the acrylic is better. I wish I was smart enough to explain it too, but most of what he said was over my head and I can't remember it.
that sounds like an interesting theory>. but keep in mind that acrylic is a plastic too.
I know a few things about acrylic though.
Acrylic is a better insulator and helps to buffer the aquarium from temperature fluctuations in the environment. It also allows better penetration of your tank's lighting.
Also its has less distortion than plastic or glass. It has almost the same refractive index as nsw, and theres no bending of light, as it passes from acrylic into seawater.. Acrylic is made out of
hydrophilic fibers and filaments with good coloring response to dyes from filament-forming hydrophobic synthetic polymers having a sheath-core structure with a highly microporous core and a substantially compact sheath and having a water retention capacity of at least 10% wherein the pores in the core have an average pore diameter measured in the direction of the cross-section of the fiber, of at most 4000 A.
Some acrylic applications have fibres of porous structure with high water retention properties. they can have water absorbent fibres with atotal water content of 20-35% of the fiber wweight, when dryed they can form small pores with connecting passages, which promotes capillary action, absorbing water quickly. However this type of water absorbent acrylic fibres retain the physical and mechanical properties of normal acrylic fibres..
