My(very first ever) hamster wakes between 12am and 2am, and goes to sleep by 6am. He does not wake up during the day.
I know hamsters are usually nocturnal to some degree, but my friends hamsters would wake up either multiple times throughout the day, or would start waking up in the evening(around 8 or 9pm) and be up until early morning.
He's just a baby, I got him April 11th and he was 5 weeks old, could that be why he sleeps so much? Is there any way to change his schedule so I can see him more than two or three times a week(the only times I can stay up late enough to hang out with him)? He doesn't seem scared, lets me handle and pat him when I do stay up late, but he's just never awake during normal hours at all. In the time I've had him I've only been able to have him out of his cage 4 times because of his bad schedule.
I can't really wake him up myself because he digs deep tunnels in his dig box and sleeps in them, to get him out I'd have to carefully dig him up and the one time I did that he screeched at me. So what can I do?
So far I have tried digging him up the one time which he hated, and keeping the room dark all day, but that didn't bring him out earlier either.