My beardie refused to eat pellets when I tried it. I bought some medicated pellets when he was little (he had worms and coccidia) and he wanted nothing to do with them. They're too crunchy, or they don't taste good, or something. I never tried any of the canned crickets or dried crickets, things like that, but I have a feeling my dragon would refuse to go near those, as well. Though, he's an adult now and extremely picky (at this point he's reduced himself to eating nothing but white dubia and blackberries). Maybe a growing juvie would be more willing to eat whatever you put in front of him.