I love my ATO :) BUT I still check my water levels everyday (my sitters are instructed to peek in on it during feeding)...but one time, my ATO shorted out, and kept on running...luckily I caught it in time, and the pump was slow enough that it did not cause any floods. I just like to have it on my lazy days that I don't feel like topping off.
That's a good fail safe in that ATO, fast! I should try to implement something like that to my ATO. Mine was diy'd. I can easily hook up a timer, so when it powers it, the timer will count down and shut off if the switch fails, and leave it to run too long...just gotta work it out on paper.
Like I said, AG...it's better to be overly detailed than to be under-detailed :) Pre-measuring all my pets' foods helps put my mind at ease. They'd have to purposefully overfeed for the plan to fail. Otherwise, they just put in one serving (for my fishes' food, I use a pill box to separate out the foods)
