Need low light potted plants.

[Yvonne G]

I'd like to suggest (years of experience here) to mount the waterers higher than the seed cups.

 

[Redfool]

You could also glue Tilandsia (Air plants) to your perches with clear silicone and mechanics wire. Just make sure you let the silicone cure. I also have spider plants in coco hair hanging baskets on my porch and have wrens and chickadees nesting in them. Spanish moss can give it a natural look. I’m sure if you have FL oak trees around you have access to all of these.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

I'd like to suggest (years of experience here) to mount the waterers higher than the seed cups.

They are. And to the left

 

[ZEROPILOT]

You could also glue Tilandsia (Air plants) to your perches with clear silicone and mechanics wire. Just make sure you let the silicone cure. I also have spider plants in coco hair hanging baskets on my porch and have wrens and chickadees nesting in them. Spanish moss can give it a natural look. I’m sure if you have FL oak trees around you have access to all of these.

Lots and lots of air plants around. That's for sure.

 

[Pastel Tortie]

I went to several bird supply stores looking at natural branch perches.
These mount to the sides of the cage. So you get branches without an actual tree.
I grabbed 8 of them. Did the math in my head and discovered that they were over $100.
So, this morning I headed out west to a swamp area that has a lot of Live Oak trees and started cutting.
Then over to Lowes for washers, wingnuts and studs..
What I ended up with are these.
So far I've made 11 and I have about four dollars invested.

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Awesome!

 

[Pastel Tortie]

You could also glue Tilandsia (Air plants) to your perches with clear silicone and mechanics wire. Just make sure you let the silicone cure. I also have spider plants in coco hair hanging baskets on my porch and have wrens and chickadees nesting in them. Spanish moss can give it a natural look. I’m sure if you have FL oak trees around you have access to all of these.

Just make sure to soak any Spanish moss in a mild bleach solution and rinse well. That should rid it of any undesirables.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Just make sure to soak any Spanish moss in a mild bleach solution and rinse well. That should rid it of any undesirables.

Yeah.
It seems to me that in moss and air plants both, I've seen mites. Or something like mites.
Makes your skin itch whatever they are.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

This is the bottom. Fake grass mat. Not the looped or woven type because I'm concerned about nails getting caught up in it. It can be vacuumed.
Then sheets of construction paper that can be changed out easily.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

So I gave up on the natural look and went for the ease of maintenance thing instead.

 

[Pastel Tortie]

Yeah.
It seems to me that in moss and air plants both, I've seen mites. Or something like mites.
Makes your skin itch whatever they are.

When I was younger, I heard them referred to as redbugs in the Spanish moss... although I never saw any red bugs in any moss I looked at. I was never sure if that was another term for chiggers, or what.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Chiggers is a term in heard too.
For anything in the woods that made you itch.

 

[Pastel Tortie]

Chiggers is a term in heard too.
For anything in the woods that made you itch.

I was never really sure what chiggers were. I may have heard eventually, but it didn't stick in my mind. It seemed to involve some kind of egg laying, or burrowing larvae... (?) Something that was responded to by dabbing fingernail polish on the bite or point of entry on the skin, apparently with the intent of cutting off the oxygen supply for whatever was causing the itch.

I never had reason to deal with any of that, so my knowledge was second- or third-hand, at best.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

I just doused myself with isopropyl rubbing alcohol.
Also not scientific. But 100% effective.