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So I know of three distinct ‘over-ride’ appearances (regardless of their actual genetic colour), our lovely equine creates can receives:

Candy - current in October seems to be a sort of speckled look as if it’s a bowl of mixed candy pieces
Candy(cane’ - has been in previous years and think is still the general ‘candy’ look, which gives horses a red and white striped look
Mermaid - I recall receiving it this summer, with creates obtaining different look via fishy tail and fins.

My query related to after you ‘hand in for gene modification token (GMT)’.
You still retain the horse. The candy and candy(cane) creates still have their additional appearance event after handing in for GMT. Even after a page or image update.
However, doing so for the mermaid horses results in the loss of their stunning, unique look. I was still hoping they’d retain their mermaid appearance similar to the Candy horses.

Is this how things are supposed to work, or have my mermaid horses glitched? Are candy horses glitched in that they Don’t lose their special appearance after handing in for GMT?
Would help to perhaps have things uniform for all GMT hand in looks or maybe added information explaining loss of look per type mer, candy, candy(cane), etc

Sorry just my poor brain isn’t ‘getting’ why both are different.