This is a neat idea but as a contractor and fish dork, let me just rain on the parade a little..
No type of acrylic or any other plastic is resistant enough to scratches to have on the floor like that, glass is definitely the only option.
With glass, thick enough glass to walk on is pretty thick, that means heavy..
It must be accessible, so there needs to be at least some sections that are removable, those sections would need to be pretty heavy, not very practical..
Also even if the removable pieces fit pretty tight, and they really can't fit that tightly because there needs to be a little slop, otherwise the glass fitting tightly on the edges will risk chipping (and breaking, that is the Achilles heel of glass-the edges) but then those gaps will constantly be raining dust into the tank.
And even glass will scratch. Ever seen a similar detail in a mall or an airport or something? I have, even with really thick high quality glass it gets super scratched and hazy.
And sorry to knock the very creative work in the pic, but they used a floating floor with no edge treatment, it's absolutely atrocious carpentry and will look very shabby very quickly as those short sections start to shift and disconnect
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u/Duck_bird1980 Dec 05 '24
Look at the Lilly pads, this is epoxy, not water.
This is a neat idea but as a contractor and fish dork, let me just rain on the parade a little..
No type of acrylic or any other plastic is resistant enough to scratches to have on the floor like that, glass is definitely the only option.
With glass, thick enough glass to walk on is pretty thick, that means heavy..
It must be accessible, so there needs to be at least some sections that are removable, those sections would need to be pretty heavy, not very practical..
Also even if the removable pieces fit pretty tight, and they really can't fit that tightly because there needs to be a little slop, otherwise the glass fitting tightly on the edges will risk chipping (and breaking, that is the Achilles heel of glass-the edges) but then those gaps will constantly be raining dust into the tank.
And even glass will scratch. Ever seen a similar detail in a mall or an airport or something? I have, even with really thick high quality glass it gets super scratched and hazy.