Change your pet
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There are several ways to change your pet's appearance. The most common is probably by painting it to change the color. You can also change the species or color of your pet with a magic potion. And, if you get access to the lab ray by collecting the map pieces, you can "zap" your pet, randomly changing its color, species, characteristics (such as speed, intelligence or defense strength) or even its gender. Sometimes a random event will change your pet. Recently (early 2007) many pets have been randomly zapped to baby by a Bruce named Boochi. Magical plushies are another method. Play with one, and your pet will change to the style and species of the plushie. Once played with, the plushie will become a normal plushie.
more on each of these methods later...
For more information on each method, see
[edit] Lab Ray or Paint Brush
Question: Is it better to use the lab ray or paint brush? Recommendations: Go for the lab ray. the lab ray paints you pets, add defence, strength, and other battle stats. and you can also change them daily. lab ray map peices go for 18,000-120,000 nps. but you can get them on the auctions starting at around 5,000-15,000 nps. or the whole lab map on the trades for 400,000-1,000,000 nps. For a strategy to get the whole map, see lab ray. It may take time to get what you want. Also, there are special pet colors you can only get at the lab ray. and when you get the pieces, make sure it's the secret laboratory map.
Save up for the lab ray as it may cost 1,000,000 nps, but it's definately worth it. You have the chance to change your pet into a limited edition pet, or a special colour and with a paint brush you can change your colour but it could take longer to save for a certain paint brush, e.g baby paint brushes are around 700,000, and biscuit paint brushes are 675,000 on average. The lab ray it great value for you neopoints.
[edit] Special cases
Chias can change their appearance by eating a magical chia pop. When a Chia eats a Chia Pop, it will change to look like whatever fruit or vegetable is in the name of the Chia Pop. Non-magical chia pops have no outcome whatsoever on the Chia's appearance. Only Usuls & Quiggles can be painted Usuki, and only Aishas can be the colour Alien (it is an extremely rare effect from the lab ray, so if a pet gets zapped Alien, it will automatically become an Aisha.) A few colors like clay and custard are available to very few pets, about 7-10.
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[edit] External Links
- To see what some of the pets look like when given the "Maraquan" look, go to the Bubbling Pit.
- Rainbow Pool - where you can see what colors (appearances) a particular species has or, if you have the right paintbrush, you can paint your pet.
- Changing Your Neopets Appearance FAQ
