The Grundo Scientist has opened up his laboratory in Virtupets in an effort to get more funding for his projects. In exchange he will be able to scan your pets for any possible mutations in their genetic code and then if you wish - change them to make that mutation active.

The Rainbow Pool - being a magical fourth wall breaking feature will also display all pets with alternate colours available.
You will see [X Alt(s)] on the bottom right of the circle image of searched pets in the pool.
Clicking on them will take you to the view poses page as normal and you will be able to also see any alternatives available.

The Grundo Scientist charges 50,000 Neopoints each time he changes your pets genes. If your pet changes species/colour then this alt will be lost and you will have to re-buy it later on.


To kick off the release of the alt/genetics system - our lovely artists have compiled a bunch of alts for the purple colour, as many people have expressed the desire to have a purple without orange spots, we will be aiming to have all purple pets have a pure purple alt eventually.

It's coming off with a strong start with 29 pets supporting it already (those who already are pure purple will have an "Orange Infused" alt added which will give them orange spots instead!)

Big thanks to Blake, Shard and Deebs for the pure purple/orange infused alts!
(also Blake totally made an inverted pastel usul that you should check out too)