Weird behaviour, not eating, black bearding

[Phoebe]

Hi everyone, I'm getting a little worried about my beardie. I feed him crickets every day and let him eat as many as he wants in 10 minutes. I've had him coming up for 3 months and he's coming up for 9 months roughly. Until about 2 weeks ago he used to love his crickets and would have a big apititite but now he's not eating at all really, for example the last three days, he ate 20 crickets, then the next day I couldn't get him to eat any so none that day, then today he's only eaten 6 crickets. He also has a bowl of veg in his Viv but 99% of the time he won't touch it. It's quite fustrating to try and get him to eat cricks too because i'll keep putting them near him and he'll just look at them and ignore them and let them get away or he'll just stare at me for ages while i'm trying to get him to eat them. Today he was just staring at me and ignoreing the crickets and I spent a good 10 minutes putting this cricket infront of him so I thought ok i'll put this one away he obviously doesn't want it but a non powdered cricket came out and he happily ate that one so that made me wonder too. He's a confusing little thing!
He's also been black bearding a lot, every day actually he's black bearded once, i usually wake up to him glass dancing and he'll be black bearded and other times I'll get him out his viv and he'll black beard, does that mean he doesn't like me?
He also likes to come out his Viv recently and find a place in the house to lay down and sleep, it's usually where something is covering him, like today after he ate his 6 crickets he walked into the bathroom and curled up under the sink unit.
At first I thought it was brumation behaviour but surley it's too warm to brumate now? So I don't know what's going on with him, the not eating thing is starting to really worry me and the fact he always seems angry or with his dark colours, i just want him to be happy! Any help will be appreciated, thank you

 

[Gail]

He sounds like a moody male during breeding season, they can get really hormonal this time of year. Most likely thats why he is black bearding and not because he doesn't like you.
Its fairly common for dragons to stop eating a food they used to like. I suggest trying a different feeder and see if that gets him eating again. Some dragons get to a point where they just flat out refuse to eat crickets.