Give it a little while - if your acts anything like all my phals - there will soon be roots going everywhere - in and out of the pot. I have a skewer or two in mine too - but I've found that after a few weeks I can generally tell where the media is by how heavy the pot feels when I lift it up - compared to when I watered. Using the skewer as a gauge I've been able to go three weeks without watering using coir (during the cool winter months). My first couple phals were in a peat mix by a local grower and I learned the hard way that I SHOULD have been using the skewer method from the start - I watered them like I was watering a plant in bark and managed to nearly kill them from root rot. Still in the learning process, but hopefully "learning" (?) something different each time!
mike