Hi Devin and welcome to the forum, California King and Avian Adventure are better quality brands of cages, while others such as Preview, A&E and HQ are a little less quality but ok for the money, while interaction with the whole family will be great for your new fid (fid=feathered kid) you'll have to make sure that where you place the cage will be a place that will also be one in which the bird will have plenty of time to sleep, if there is a a lot of activity later into the evening you may consider placing a smaller sleep cage in another part of the house that is much quieter, birds require 12+ hours of restful sleep, basicly sundown to sun up, a well rested bird is one that is usually much better behaved, as for a pelleted diet there are many on the market, some better than others, one of the better ones, and more expensive is Harrison's, its an organic formula that is a bit harder to find, you can mail order it, or sometimes you can find it at a good Avian vets office, others that are pretty good would be Roudybush, Zupreem, just to mention a few, I'm sure others will weigh in on what they use and recomend, you'll also want to feed fruits and vegetables along with some seeds and nuts, for my macaw I break it down to about 50% pellet, 30% fruits and veg, and 20% nuts and seed, macaws need a bit more fat in their diet than many other parrot species, a very good book to pick up would be "Parrots For Dummies" please don't be offended, there are many of us on the forum that have it and refer to it often, even those of us that have been around and worked with birds for many years, hope some of that helped, more advice from other members is sure to come, enjoy your stay
