I setup the tank on Sunday and annoyed the wife by having to go to the LFS to buy the live rock. The styrofoam container the LFS put the rock in leaked all over the kitchen floor and the python flooded the furnace room. The airtube broke off the pump for the skimmer; Finnex is sending a replacement part. One of the lights was dislodged from shipping but I figured out how to pop it back in and everything appears to be working. Documentation is minimal so I'm sort of winging it.
I mixed the salt water right in the tank. I didn't have a hydrometer so I eyeballed it. The hydrometer arrived yesterday and it read 1.022. Beginners luck
The temperature in the tank is 75 degrees without a heater although I've added one. I didn't treat the water but I'm planning on using Prime tonight. The LFS said it should take about six weeks for the tank to cycle.
I pulled out the wet/dry filter while the tank is cycling. There's no documentation on how to use it.
The water flow to the refuge is adjustable but there isn't any documentation about how to use it.