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I think someone's been reading terrible advice: http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Beer-Taste-Better

The local Big W (think Walmart) has a tiny brewing section which I like to browse from time to time for a laugh. To give you an idea, they have packets of 'Hops' which come in a circular freeze-dried cake and don't even mention what variety of hop it is. It's just Hops. Yeah. As I'm reading...

Perfectly fine.

TastyWheat

When the recipe called for Galaxy, it meant the hops, not the phone...

FG of 1030? I'd treat those suckers like unexploded ordinance.

Pitched the yeast at way too hot a temperature on my first ever batch. After panic subsided I cooled it all down, and the yeast survived. Had a nice krausen two days later. Confused Galaxy and Cascade hops, adding the wrong amount of each to the boil. Turned out just fine.

Yeah you're fine. All's good.

Had a guy at work find out I was a homebrewer and he legitimately believed that you need to brew it in a bathtub. I can just imagine what the mental image of that was like...

Yeah you'll be fine to leave it be. I started with the same kit you have, and I'm currently using it to ferment a honey ale. Once the krausen subsides, all the dried up gunk is higher than the top of the liquid anyway. Most fermenters don't have a krausen collar at all. It's really just for...