scraping

is there an existing area that talks about the advantages/disadvantages of glass vs. acrylic? I'm wanting to upgrade to a larger tank (60+) and for shipping/moving purposes the acrylic seems like a nice advantage but I worry about the cleaning and maintence (scraping the glass with the scraper...

I went to the lfs a few days ago and got a pretty little turbo snail. I've noticed on it's shell there is coraline algae, will it spread to the tank or should I scrape it off and snail and add it around my tank? I'm a newbie with live rock so thanks for any input. Oh and sorry for my noob-ness.

My tank is going through the the green algae phase and every day there is algae on the rocks and glass. THere are currently only 3 large turbos in the tank. I scrape the front glass every day but wonder if I should leave it for the snails to eat as my scraping is just spreading it in the tank...

Hi there, I just took down my 72 bow front tank and moving it to a new location, and thought it would be the perfect time to scrape everything off. however on the sides there is really smooth brown alage on the glass that won't come off. I am tried 3 razor blades and a glass algae scraper. The...