@purpleinopp Yeah I really like this forum. It's been sooo helpful.
So the rhipsalis is still dropping healthy little limbs. I threw away a whole bunch (darn it) without thinking but today I just let them be. I might try sticking them in. I just don't know what happened. It had been so happy.
I usually do that method with the birds nest, letting it soak for a minute then tipping it which seems to work. It doesn't seem too waterlogged. It's just always been more or less the same. Nervous always about no holed planters too but finally planted it because it had been in the plastic container for awhile and it's always just been fickle.