A Challenge!!!

[Makoes]

Hello, as some of you know I do some HARPG (horse art rpg) on Deviant art, particularly with a breed known as "Marandians". Well, Right now, from Oct 1-7th, for "World Animal Day" one of the VERY rare types of Marandian known as an "Equinox" has a special "holiday" breeding cycle. Meaning any Equinox Marandian "breed" between the 1-7th will produce Equinox offspring! (any other time of the year besides specified holidays will only result in a normal genetic offspring). It also so happens that I have an Equinox stallion, King of Hearts.

Now, I've sent in my request to breed him with another one of my horses so that i could get another Equinox, on top of that I also purchased the "twins potion" which will result in 2!!! Foals from the breeding, and this is where I need YOUR creativity! Because the holiday is "World Animal Day." I will be able to base the offspring's coats off of ANY!!!! Animal that exists!

one foal I've already decided to base off of the "Colorful Mandarin Fish"


But, I can't decide what to base the second one off of! So this is where I need your help!! Show me the most awesome animals you can find!!! Anything that exists counts! Fish/spiders/bugs/mammals/reptiles/amphibians/etc. Except!!! Please NO BIRDS or FROGS (an avian & frog coated Marandian mutation already exists)

Thank you

[Bowno]

Mantis shrimp. *nod nod*

[Chimera]

Numbat!!! They're so adorable holy crap ;-; I love them, I'm sure it'd make a great, simple, but unique pattern

[Makoes]

The mantis shrimp is really pretty, but I am not sure it would translate well to a horse coat. To much red on the legs, and green on the back with only some patterning on the head and tail, and some blue on the legs near the hooves.

The Numbat might be interesting, the markings would transfer well.

I'd like to see what else people come up with before settling

[Castile]

Numbat!!! They're so adorable holy crap ;-; I love them, I'm sure it'd make a great, simple, but unique pattern

Oh thats the state symbol for Western Australia <3

I'd also add the Quoll

[Makoes]

I think I'd like to find/see something more elaborate, wild, colorful, something that screams "This is not a typical horse coat"

[Chimera]

I resized all the pics so they won't kill anyone if they click the links but its still a lot of pics so I've just linked em rather than have a color explosion

Crazy looking fish and blue ringed octopus
http://i44.tinypic.com/2qcr1ir.jpg
http://i39.tinypic.com/ip5vns.jpg

Same bird, two different angles
http://i44.tinypic.com/281ro2b.jpg
http://i41.tinypic.com/j9onlw.jpg

Same bird I'm pretty sure, one of it normal and another of it displaying for females
http://i43.tinypic.com/4ptum0.jpg
http://i42.tinypic.com/2poshds.jpg

Same bird, front in display mode, second pic of its back when its normal
http://i41.tinypic.com/29zarf8.jpg
http://i41.tinypic.com/2qmg9ba.jpg

Unrelated but pretty birds-- I don't know of any other pics to see the first bird in different positions... I don't actually know the name to any of these birds aside that most are birds of paradise XD
http://i39.tinypic.com/alhuyt.jpg
http://i44.tinypic.com/30cr5sy.jpg

[Dewclaw]

How about a butterfly:

http://wallpaperskd.com/wallpapers/2012 ... 85x728.jpg

http://www.stories-for-children.ca/reso ... 4023347984

[Makoes]

Unfortunately I can't use bird designs since there's already an "avian" mutation that makes them look like bird colors.

Butterfly's are pretty, I might look into them more

[Chimera]

Some non birds then

http://static.neatorama.com/images/uplo ... n-slug.jpg (blue sea slug)
http://oddstuffmagazine.com/wp-content/ ... n-frog.jpg (theres lots of different colored/patterned clown frogs-- this is one of the more not-so-extravagant ones)
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AZ1pwhPbAgU/T ... es-007.jpg (some breed of snake)
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wg2mnzIH9mI/T ... mals+1.jpg (one of many varieties of spiny lizard, though this one is more detailed pattern-wise than most of the other breeds I can find)
http://blogs.discovery.com/.a/6a00d8341 ... 970d-800wi (calico colored lobster)

A few varieties of skinks (or least what google gave me that was labelled as skink haha)
http://cdn1.arkive.org/media/75/7572CE6 ... venile.jpg
http://img.dictionary.com/skink-129074-400-267.jpg
http://www.ozanimals.com/image/albums/a ... kink-1.jpg
http://www.dtsherpsinc.com/Fire_skink_2.jpg (I like this guy, he's a juvenile fire skink)
http://www.gallerygeckos.com/uploads/5/ ... 8_orig.jpg (adult fire skink)

[Makoes]

Wow, those are some awesome suggestions!

Ohhh, a couple people have submitted coat designs for their Equinox foals. One did theirs based on a sea slug, one on a red panda, and another on a lionfish!


Unrelated-ish:
I had an Avian foal to design, and picked the Peacock