Re: A few obligatory questions :)
It would be best to just give her a cardboard tea box (about 5" inches x 5" inches square) to sleep in. My female adores her little tea box and knows that this is her `sleeping hut`. Plastic igloos can get moisture build up, so using an open bottomed cardboard box will allow her to dig beneath and build a nest. Chinese hamsters do this, which is why you are finding that she disappears. They prefer to be in a burrow-like nest. Paper bedding is the best, but if you use Carefresh, I would imagine she will just utilize that as it`s pulp and form a nest under the tea box!
If she`s currently in an open BIN, I would suggest covering the lid with a fine mesh and just bend over the ends. Chinese hamsters are best kept in Zoozone 1 style tanks or glass aquariums that allow plenty of running room. Use wood, cork and cardboard to allow her hiding places as they are naturally shy creatures and dart from one place to another, so like to have plenty of tubes and places to hide. A regular silent spinner size is best aswell as the `mini` one is on the small side. They are not that great even for Roborovski hamsters, which are smaller than chinese, which grow to the size of an adult mouse.
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