1 Quaker - Many (unusual) questions!

Mine eat the Zupreem fruity blend and won't touch any other kind. Yours is young and might be willing to try others. You can get samples from the companies at low cost to see what he prefers. Seeds are only a treat, so it's good that he's used to pellets already. Plus you can give him almost anything you eat (no chocolate!). My Quaker won't touch most human food, but my cockatiel and cockatoo will often at least try stuff I'm eating and my cockatoo will move heaven and earth for mashed potatoes.

My little parrots have their own room and they go to bed at 8:30 year-round. Once in a great while I might let them stay up later, but if I do, they start yawning and stretching and getting grumpy. If we're going out and won't be home before their bedtime, I turn their lights down low and they go to bed on their own. Rocky, now, (the cockatoo) wants to stay up until we go to bed. I've worked and worked and finally convinced him to let me tuck him in at 9:30 most nights. His cage is in the living room so it's harder to give him the quiet and dark I can give the little ones in their own room. Consistency and a schedule is what birds need, so if it's possible to put your baby to bed at the same time every night in the dark, undisturbed, that's best for his temper and health.

Mine all have human names and Rocky already had a name when he came to us. My husband chose Clyde's name and I named Freddie, after offering Freddie several options. He liked "Freddie" best. I don't remember what the other options were now -- he joined the family at 8 weeks of age and he's 9 now -- but each name I suggested was met with stony silence until I said "Freddie," and he chirped at that one. I said, "You like that? You want to be 'Freddie?'" and he chirped again, so he's Freddie. I always do that with birds and dogs. Clyde was originally supposed to be Hubby's bird and he just foisted the name Clyde upon him, but Clyde doesn't seem to mind.