Both silicate glass and window glass have their advantages and disadvantages. Briefly summarize the main:
Disadvantages of the fire: it is easy to scratch; It is usually less transparent (mainly because the manufacturers of aquariums make them from low-grade glass); It is more difficult to clean it from growth; And, finally, the aquariums from the wall were much older than the silicate ones.
Limitations of silicate glass: on the order of lesser strength than in the organic; If you manage to get hurt, then it's forever; It is very difficult to make an aquarium of non-linear shapes; Very often manufacturers use low-grade glass with non-destructible defects in the form of bubbles and the like.
Advantages of organic glass: very simple and on break and on impact; Damaged wounds, tsapapiny and other easily polipovyvayutsya; You can do the capacity of any imaginable form.
It is worthy of the silicate glass: it is little tattooed, easy to clean, has better transparency, i.e. The general appearance of the aquarium is usually better than that of the glass; Beskarkasnye aquariums made of ordinary glass are much easier to manufacture and cheaper.

Sent by Maxim Abzaladdinov from Barnaul