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Hello Parrot1

There is a possibility these 2 species of birds could live together, but this would be the exception. It depends on the personalities of each individual bird. I personally would not put my love bird & 2 Cockatiels together in the same cage to live. They do get along fine outside their cages together, but the lovebird could injure the cockatiel much worse than vice versa when they get in squabbles.

Birds act differently outside their cages than inside their cages, too. This is why it just depends on the individual bird's personalities whether they get along in any situation. Your supervision when they are outside their cages can help change a hostile situation between the two birds, but when inside a cage together and you are not home, a little squabble can sometimes turn ugly. In this situation, the cockatiel would most probably lose to the lovebird.

I have 1 Lovebird and 2 Cockatiels....they have supervised play outside their cages....but I would never put them together....too risky!

That is my opinion....hope this sheds some light on your question.

I also wouldn't reccomend caging them together. Lovebirds are much more aggressive and territorial than cockatiels and things could get out of hand when you're not home. Out of cage playtime together may work but I wouldn't expect them to live in the same cage. Just the extra stress to the cockatiel might be a very negative thing.

With almost any other kind of bird I'd say introduce them slowly and see haw they get on, but Lovies and Lories are two birds that should ONLY ever be housed with their own kind. Even in an aviry you can have carnage. Cockateils are bigger, but they are alot gentler. the lovebird would walk over him until he got sick of sharing his space.
I assume since the cockateil is older you have him already? in which case, you may be able to try a different breed (rosella, other kind of grass parrot, hell 'teils can live well with budgies), but there is no guarrentee it'll work and you'll have to get two cages anyway.
I asked a simular thing last year and you should hear some of the horror stories I've heard since. don't risk it

Actually, I wouldn't even house budgies and cockatiels together unless it was a large enough space that the cockatiels could EASILY get away from the budgies... less of course the budgies pursued the tiels to the point of frusteration.

Snowey and Petey (my lovies) really want to hang out with Casper (my tiel). Casper HATES them! Petey is always trying to get close to her. When I let the lovies out, they fly right over to Casper.

Casper can deal with the dog better than she can deal with the lovies!!!

In my opinion it is too much of a risk. I used to let Banjo (cockatiel) and Jellybean (sister's lovebird) out for supervised play when JB was still young and was intimidated by him. Once she reached about 6 months she was much more confident and I wouldn't even let them out for supervised play. A lovie's beak is not to be messed with 1 quick nip and your cockatiel loses a toe, beak, possibly even an eye. I knew that I wouldn't be able to react fast enough even if I was right there so there is no way I would leave them unsupervised. I used to let Banjo and Apple (budgie) out while I supervised them but I wouldn't have kept them in the same cage either. She was a typical budgie- biggest pest in the world. Just wouldn't have been fair to him.

I would suggest either another cockatiel or housing them seperately. You can still have the cages next to each other, just don't put them in there together, it's not worth it.

Blurry pic of the 3 of them while they could still play together.

my lovebird can't be out when my cockateils and budgie are out because she pcks on them so, but recently, my lovebird and quaker have decided to move in together... peculiar, but amazingly adorable.