Miserable Hamster?

[Jamieking86]

Hi all, we've had Frankie for a few months now, and he's so cute and lovely but he's so bloody miserable.

We got him a hamster heaven cage which has everything in it, you could think of to keep him entertained, but he never seems happy he's chewing his bars a lot. We get him out in his playpen a few times a week but when we do, he chews the bars and the towel laid out on the floor, he never really plays with his stuff. If you've seen the hamster heaven cage it has a green lower shelf and higher pink shelf. We thought he might be too crowded so we got rid of his lower green shelf to make more room, put his large wheel their which he ran in for a long time (which we never see him do, we presume he plays in his wheel when we go to bed) so we presumed he was happy, we put a couple of extra toys in with him, we changed his house as the house was too small before since he's grown in size, we moved his original bedding to his new house so it still had his scent and fresh food, he's got like a big coccoon now with more room. The first night he seemed to sleep in it well, then yesterday he came out through the day which is quite unlike him, went into his tube which leads to his penthouse on top of the cage, and slept their for 5-6 hours until he got up which is usually around 8pm.

This morning we came down and he's seemed to have moved a load of his bedding into his tube with a load of food horded their. He always hoards his food into his penthouse but he seems to have taken some from their into his tube. I don't really want this as i don't want the tube filling up with gone off food and bacteria. Also whenever we go near him he's so jumpy, he's just got his head popping out his tube into his penthouse, whenever we go near him he scatters straight back into his tube. Usually when we get up on a morning he's in his bed fast asleep then we don't really see him until he gets up at 8pm ish. I hope i haven't pee'd him off by changing his bed?