So today I was finally able to change both Trade trade and Stoke stoke into the pets they were meant to be.
You see when I created Stoke I knew I wanted to turn him into this blacksmith, steamworks type pet. However I didn't in order to get the gear gender you needed to create the pet in the process of making them steamworks, that you couldn't get the gender after the fact. But! I did figure out that I could make another pet that way and switch the name, which is why Trade was born.
So Trade had the gear gender and was the correct pet, and I really wanted Trade to become a experiment . So for months I was zapping stoke at least once or twice a day to get the correct experiment. And the other day I finally got the experiment that I wanted!
And thanks to the beautiful name exchange system I was able to switch their names. So trade is an adorable Experiment and Stoke is an gear gendered Steamwork Dillema. So Happy to finally have that done!