I just cannot control myself. While I was reading, it was actually quite funny but at the same time you felt very uneasy. The other reefers are offering so much genuine and sincere advices and you should be glad. I make up my mind to start this hobby around July and been going around asking and reading. It was so tough, you can never imagine, without anything to start with. I should just be like you start the thread from Day 1 and seek advices from the reefers here and save all the hassle but without proper knowledge or I should say being lazy to find out it is just like having the hobby for the seek of having it instead of loving the process and the satisfaction generate from this hobby. Only until September I decided to order the tank I want. But I am not in any way to tell you what to do, it is just an opinion from my side.
I have read till page 6 and I hope that the last few pages have something to tell me that you succeed in your tank. Anyway different people walks different paths in this hobby but mostly the same (not in your way). LOL.
Best of luck for you in the hobby.