Bedding depth experiment: fifteen centimetres versus twenty five, two weeks each. I counted tunnels every night. At fifteen he made two short ones. At twenty five there were five, and he slept underground every day instead of in his house.

Sharing this because it took me two hamsters and a lot of reading to get it right.

When I started out I used maybe 4-5cm of bedding because that is what the pet shop cage came with and it looked "clean". My Syrian slept on top of it, in the open, and woke up at every little nois...

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Six weeks of patience and daily short sessions. Tonight he just climbed on and went to sleep.

No real point to this post, I am just very happy about it.

I keep reading that 15cm is the minimum, but my Syrian just builds one giant nest in the corner and ignores the rest.

Should I still fill the whole base or is a deep corner enough? He seems happy either way but I want to do this right.