Contacts are red, cannot send iMessages

I am unable to send iMessages on a new iPad, contacts are coming up red even though they are indeed registered iMessage accounts (which I have been messaging successfully from an iPod for a long time), I have logged into iMessage properly and haven't changed my Apple ID. My WiFi is working correctly. I am baffled. Have read through the forum and answers are always "...iPads cannot send SMS message to any other device without an Apple ID" but again, the contacts are definitely registered. Please help. Thank you.

Problem solved! When setting up the new iPad, I used the family Apple ID that we have for iTunes/App Store rather than the Apple ID I use as my contact address - thankfully didn't have much loaded on the iPad, so I just erased all content & settings, restored to factory settings, and re-setup the iPad using the contact ID, set up iMessage / Facetime, and then added the iTunes/App Store ID after the fact. Everything works now. (note if anyone else needs to do this, backup your info first or it will be gone - I didn't back up as there was nothing worth losing on the device). Thank you tech support!

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