Planning a 180g in wall build

[Khazmodain]

Well I recently bought a new house which is still being completed. This fortunately allowed me to get the builder to build a place for me to put a 180gallon aquarium in the wall with a nice fish room behind it before they got too far along with the construction. So I will be upgrading from my 125g (46x22x28.5) into a 180g (72x24x24). Locally, there's a used 180g acrylic (by Tank Works) which may suffice, but I want to check it out in person to see how bad the scratches are first.

If I decide to get a new tank instead, does anyone have any recommendations for a reef ready 180g acrylic? I haven't done an abundance of research on tank brands, but I've always heard good things about ******* (I don't know why this brand is censored... But it starts with a "Ten" and ends with an "ecor"). fishtanksdirect.com has free shipping on their aquariums, which would be a plus. But these are the brands I'm looking at:

SeaClear by Casco: $1069.80
Tsunami: $1165.99
*******: $1331.00

They are all acrylics with the same dimensions and corner overflows. Honestly, the extra $261 is such a small expense relative to all the costs in this hobby, I'm tempted to go with ******* based on name alone. Does anyone have any thoughts or alternative suggestions?

Thanks!

 

[d3hree]

have you looked into a glass version?
I think a tank that size would be considerably cheaper in glass?...any particular reason for getting a 180 in acrylic?

You could always hang on for MACNA and try and knick one.

 

[Khazmodain]

I'll check to see if they are much cheaper after shipping with starfire as the front panel. I've always been partial to acrylic... especially if we're going to have kids in the next couple years. It really is too bad I won't be able to wait until MACNA since it's in my hometown this year