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What is a refractometer? And a refugium? I got no idea about marine tanks, fresh I can do, and ro/di water?

Sounds expensive, I live near the beach, can I just go and get a bucket of sand from there? Lol

I read in a book that it's better to cycle with a couple of fish present as they create a small amount of ammonia to keep the nitrites and nitrates going enough to create a good colony on the filter media

If it breaks and catches fire in a tank full of water I'm sure you will have nothing to worry about, and as long as it has no cracking or blackening inside, or water at the bottom inside it's fine, it's reasons like this I use fully metal insulated ones lol

I have a 20 gallon tank, it's bust keeping fresh water at the moment, I have a friend who owns a shop supplying fish and all things related who will take them from me, I really want salt water fish, I see some set ups on here and I have to verbally say wow, and also, if it is big enough, do I...

So I set the rank up to 27.5°c and now they don't go red and chase the female so I dropped it back to 26°C, I also put some large gravel on top of my sand in the plants for eggs to fall into if it happens :)

The problem I have is the only other tank I have is home to a map turtle, I have lots of plants in half the tank so if they lay eggs in there, hopefully, some of the fry would hide in the plants and be okay, we will see, thanks guys, I'll now turn my temp up a couple of ℃

Don't think so, mts would get in the sand and mix it up, going through it like a worm would through soil, a crab will just walk on top and pick food up I think, no expert though

I noticed lately my barbs have more intense colors in the morning when the lights go on, they follow the female round the tank and the one male chances the other male away from the female, I guess he wants babies with her but I'm not sure how to go about making it happen, I have half the tank...

So I've got black Ruby barbs, and I think they are in "season" or something, the male goes more red and the black on him seems to get bigger and cover more of his body, and he chases the females around, it's more in the morning than evening, then today I noticed white on one of my plants, it's...

Google says 5-10 years

Wow, 9 years? I thought I did well with a lemon tetra that lived 3 years lol, well done

I have a arched rock in the middle where the plec usually hangs out, lately the male Ruby barb has been getting more red and chasing the female about and the plec keeps chasing the male barb, I'm not sure if the plec could hurt him or anything, and I'm not sure if I should move his rock to a...

Thanks, that's helped a lot

I'm new to fish and joined this forum to get advice before I do anything drastically wrong, I notice lots of people on here are what I would consider expert level keepers and use lots of jargon and abbreviations, so, for a noobie to fish and the world of keeping, and for others like me out there...