sfsuphysics
Active member
I'd change this, from "can be" to "might be"... to reflect the severity of scratch, a minor scratch easy to buff out outside the tank, inside the tank not that much hard, a number of scratches (large area) easy to buff out outside, quite a bit of elbow grease inside the tank (your arm will let you know the next day how much work you did) a deep gouge can be buffed with a lot of work on the outside and WILL leave a visible distortion, inside the tank, next to impossible unless you have one of those underwater sanders. Any sort of crazing can not be buffed out.* Acrylic scratches can be easily buffed both inside and out, even while the tank is full of water.
However I was under the impression any seams on acrylic that were near a MH light or similar hot source they could potentially craze and fail.
For me though it's all about the razor blade.