Good morning, pets and owners!  It's your friendly advice columinst, Loki_Wolf, here to answer your questions and make your morning coffee sludge that much more interesting.  For our first offering, we have a bumper crop of questions trolled from the forums on Zetapets.com.  If YOU have a question about Zetapets you would like to see answered, you can zmail my human (scoutd) or gmail her (scoutd@gmail.com), and I will answer them! And now for the questions! Dear Loki, How do you change the color of the bars on Zetapets? Well, this is apprently one of their cleverly hidden secrets. *grin*  However, in order to change all the yellow bars on the main header and left navigation bar, go to your "Settings" page (remember the link is on one of those bars next to "Refer" and under "Logout").  Now the new page that just opened is titled "Edit your Profile".  Scroll down to the bottom.  There will be a section called "Layout Color".  Use the drop down menu to select whichever color scheme appeals to you: Blue, Purple, Arctic, all colors of pets are there.  Now, as with anything on this page ("Edit Your Profile"), remember to type in your current password, or nothing will be changed!  Have fun redecorating! Loki - can Petpals do tricks? Well, of course they can!  The things I have seen a Celestia do would amaze you.  However due to the newness of Zetapets, and the time constraints of the programmers (no time warps available, unfortunately), there are only a few tricks you can watch your petpal do.  Like contemplating the existence of their navel.  It may look like they're not doing anything, but trust me, they are. And, from a user point of view, I have noticed that once you do choose to give your pet a pal, you have to play with it constantly!  Just go ahead and make it part of your first jaunt into Sentrion each day (Random ZP, Keno, Vote, Play with Pal!).  Otherwise, it becomes very unhappy with you and starts snarling at you whenever you come near.  To see this in action, visit the Pets Page, click on the PICTURE (not name) of the pet with the petpal.  This will pop-up a small window showing your pet in all its glory (Pets - Detailed), click on the link beneath your petpal (Click for Info), and the window will change to your petpal management page.  There you can see how much your petpal likes you in hearts, play with it or teach it tricks.  You will also see it's energy level.  What you will not see is a way to name it or remove it.  These features are not built in yet.  Maybe in the future. Dear Loki, How can I change my pet's color?  I really like the shadowed look! I do, too!  But I think that I will stick with this lovely red.  However, changing your pet's color is an easy, if somewhat expensive, thing to do.  First, your pet has to be an adult.  No changing baby pet colors, boys are blue and girls are pink.  Period.  So once your pet is an adult, go to the Emestar Islands.  See the shop that looks like a water faucet?  Go there.  That's where you can buy Water Distillers.  Buy the one you want (Shadow Distillers go for 20,000zp).  Then go to the mainlands of Emestar.  You will see a bright shiny multicolored lake with a sign that says "Rainbow Lake".  There you will be able to use your new Water Distiller to make sure that the waters of Rainbow Lake color your pet the new color you want.  And no, you can't just let your pet hop in without a Distiller and hope it comes out some cool color.  There are rules, you know.  Also, there are other ways to get Water Distillers.  You might get one as a random event (YAY!), you might have a friend give you one, you might win one in a contest or by submitting something to the Zetapets Team, or you might buy one from a user's shop (but since they run for 45,000zp at the cheapest, I wouldn't suggest this).  Happy coloring!