at thermodynamic Peeko found a HUGE cage that i am gonna get hopefully! Check it out, maybe you could get it too. Thank You Peeko!
I've already got two great cages (the one I linked to, and a double-decker for the others.) But there's another reason, as I read the details, as to why I don't think it's a good choice for a conure:
Amazon's product listing reveals that to be a
flight cage for
finches and
canaries, there are doubtlessly some risks involved in putting in a much larger, stronger species with a beak that could conceivably open tin cans if an opportunity and desire existed.
My guess is that, just like the flight cages at Petsmart, the cage wire for this online cage is just as thin and could be broken by a conure's sharper beak... once it tries to crawl through an opening it just made, it might get scratched and bleed around the place...
It's very roomy, but looking at that cage and the number of times they specify "finch" and "canary" (or "multiple parakeet") and then comparing the size of those birds with conures (green cheek, maroon belly, sun, jenday, blue crown - there's no difference in terms of relativity since they're all much larger and stronger than the specific bird types being referenced for that cage)...
There's more to cage than just size. The tensile strength of the material used in the bars and what metal it's made out of are important. Unlike finches and canaries, I can fathom a conure trying to gnaw its way out. Canaries and finches are softbills. Conures are hookbills - having stronger beaks, with a shape that makes bending much easier - do a web search for what softbills and hookbills look like... there's a big difference... never mind that a conure is much larger than any finch, canary, or parakeet... stronger as well.
If the metal, or its coating, contain toxic materials, the bird could get sick and/or die. That's true for
any cage, but if you were in a jail cell and found the bars to be bendable, you'd probably try to bend them at some point because you're lonely and miss your friends... that's the instinct the bird might fathom.
The feel of the metal just seems to too flimsy, and it's said all over the webpage it's meant for smaller birds as a flight cage. I don't think it's meant for a conure at all. Especially for the price. Seems too good to be true, but the price isn't the issue... their continued emphasis on "finch" and "canary" while nothing is said for conures, cockatiels, or other medium-size birds should be raising red flags.
edit check on craigslist, ebayclassifieds, hoobly thats where I get all my cages for super cheap!!!
