There is no way to hide the scratches. They are right in the middle of the tank. She is as careless as can be. The tank is worthless now as a display tank. I am regretting giving her this tank to do with what she wanted. Everyone told her it was much harder than she was thinking and she ignored them. She turned this into a high-tek planted freshwater tank having no experience at all with any kind of tank. She did her thing and it looked great when she initially finished her build. I told her she needs to research, research, research and get some knowledge about the plants, of which she randomly picked anyway. She did none. Everyone told her algae would take over if she wasn't on top of her maintenance, she wasn't, and it did. She is now in the chemicals for everything stage and still hasn't done 5 minutes worth of reading anything. I am now just letting it crash and crash hard and when she gives up I will take it back over and never allow her to step foot again in the fishroom. Some people have no business ever being in this hobby.