Squids and Pliers

I'm in front of the Squid pet with the needed Pliers and I have 900 Healing magic (enchanted). The game would not allow me to finish the quest. I know you only need 175.

I've talked to both the queen and the pet and exhausted all my current options. I recently updated to the new Quest version to allow the Elemental Asteroids Expansion, if that is of any help.