Reddit reviews Water Alarm- Leak Bug Flood Detector detects as Little as 1/32 Inch of Water- Electronic Overflow Alert Sensor Beeps When Battery is Low
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Finds Leaks before damage occurs - sensitive to just 1/32 of waterPut multiples around house, wherever leaks could occurBeeps loudly for weeks when wet, so if you are away , no worriesBeeps when batteries are low so you are never caughtLet the Leak Bug or Puppy find leaks before real damage occurs
A couple emergency and safety notes:
For everyone, do a massive favor for yourself and your property and buy one of these water / leak alarms, they’re cheap and also come in battery powered cute versions. If you spring a leak, this alarm will go off and you could potentially save your livestock, filters, pumps, heater, and of course your flooring and subfloor for just $15.
For those of us with injected CO2:
Any time you make a CO2 adjustment, be home and check in on your tank. It sounds excessive, but it’s pretty easy to just turn it up when you are watching TV on a weekend instead of off at work or school. Furthermore, if you are playing with your pH or kH, it is a good idea to do the same as this can effectively increase the amount of CO2 in the water.
Lastly, I am no expert, but I have found that increasing oxygen levels can be very beneficial. I’m still doing my research but it seems there is an overemphasis on keeping water agitation down. Plants and fish need oxygen. Putting a small airstone or having a HOB filter is not the end of the world – CO2 and O2 do not compete for space in water and now that I’m gaining more experience, seems to be beneficial as I’ve found it can keep the fish from getting gassed as the agitation will off gas excess CO2 and keep any scum from forming and suffocating the tank. If your solenoid or regulator fails or you get end of tank dump (all things which are fairly common), an airstone or surface agitation may be the only thing left to off gas that additional CO2 and save your fish.
A helpful video
They sell lil things like these (can probably find similar for cheaper) to just leave next to your water sources and they'll make noise if there's water on the floor!
Maybe something like this but put it on something the height of the level you want to detect?
Two thoughts on this:
I love GTD because it helps me stay on top of 100% of everything. However, for people like you & me, who are what I call "naturally disorganized" (haha), we need some extra help, which is where the concept of plugins (note: that's not GTD "canon") comes in. Everyone has a core set of may be 20 or 30 things they have to deal with in their life...finances, food, house cleaning, car maintenance, personal hygiene, laundry, etc. Most people get by & can just push through the annoyances, but for those of us who struggle with organization, it's an extra challenge that requires a different management approach that what we do by default (simply because we're not getting the results we want by doing what we're currently doing).
The example I always reference is laundry. Have you ever struggled with the following?
GTD is great for capturing tasks, defining next-action steps that you can take, and managing reminders of those tasks so that they actually get done & not forgotten about. However, then you end up with a very reactive system instead of a proactive system when it comes to the recurring parts of your life, like doing the laundry or managing your finances, which for me, made me feel like I had a never-ending list of stuff to do. So let's flip the script & create a system plugin for laundry! If we think about what is required to manage laundry to the point where we've got it defined from A to Z & can stop thinking about it, there are a handful of things required for us to manage.
System overview:
1 - System setup:
Logic:
Actions:
2 - System maintenance:
Logic:
Actions:
part 1/2
hmm.
driveways in front? sloping towards the building or away?
trying to figure out where all your extra water may be coming from.
6' isn't the worst if you end up figuring out you need to do some excavation to seal the outside of the basement wall. hopefully it won't come to that. it could be that a storm drain got all clogged and you had a freakish amount of extra water that couldn't drain.
you can get a water bug to alert you if it happens again.
https://www.amazon.com/Detector-detects-Electronic-Overflow-Battery/dp/B00OUD0QZC/
haaaa, here's one that looks like a bug