Re: Hanging bird tent
You've had people warn you about happy huts in that post but I'll iterate the entire list of issues I know of with them and why they should NEVER be used.
1. Hormones, huts are very similar to a nest (a warm safe place) which can make a bird hormonal causing issues for bird and owner making both unhappy.
2. Territorial, it can make a bird hostile to anyone even looking at the hut making attack. Not just a bite but actually launching at you with the intent to hurt you
3. Egg laying, in adult females it can cause chronic laying, making a female perpetually lay eggs which can kill them.
4. Hanging, this goes for anything with threads but many an owner has left for work to come home to a bird dead hanging from their hut. They pick at a thread then get trapped in it. Some birds catch their leg and bite it off to free themselves, other not so lucky ones get their neck wrapped around and literally hang to death. Many of these cases start with not a single thread visible, birds can pick a thread pretty quick.
5. Fiber ingestion, a nice fluffy material is excellent for chewing! We all know that birds love chewing and they will do so with a happy hut. Unfortunately they swallow some of the fibers, which can't be digested. They sit in the crop for ages building up until they can't eat causing them to starve to death.
6. trapped inside, not nearly as common as the others but some birds actually make a hole in one layer of the hut and crawl in between the layers, then they get stuck, and panic and unless the human is there 24/7 supervising they expire pretty quick.
Now I'll note that all those are the extreme end of the scale but here's a question? Is it worth the risk? they don't need a hut to sleep, in fact in the wild they only sleep in an enclosed space like that when breeding. The rest of the time they sleep on branches and perches. I'd remove the hut and let your conure sleep naturally on one of his perches
