I don't know why it's not shown but these things LOVE honey for taming food!!! Hope this helps someone 👍🏻

People really underestimate these guys. They may be the best black pearl harvesters in the game. They collect tons of them from the giant shells and get a crazy weight reduction on them. Not that they even really need it, since their weight stat is astronomical. When you're riding these guys you can close their shell to make your player invincible. They also provide infinite oxygen under the water and insulate you against heat and cold. From what I can tell they don't dismount you when shocked. When free swimming their tail attack has solid DPS and they take reduced damage to most of their body. On land their tail attack does impressive knockback. They also have a really solid health pool that pairs well with their natural armor. With one of these guys you can basically live inside the ocean for as long as you want. The only real downside is their speed, but if you breed a couple of high level individuals and max out your imprint you may be able to get a 200% speed baby like I did. Helps a lot.

These things are BEASTS are harvesting black pearls. They get an insane 75% reduction in weight for them!

Surprisingly a basic knockout tame

These things are AMAZING black pearl harvesters!

Oh my gosh this is a knock out tame?!??! That’s unheard of nowadays in ark!!!

I suggest using Superior kibble. You can use anything like kibble which is what I just suggested because I used it to tame mine mine and it's sometimes one dones it and it's really perfect for it

Knockout tame takes superior kibble. 3% for kibble, and 1.5% for mutton on 1x

Desmo with good longneck is all you need really be prepared with either kibble or a lot of mutton they’re hunger drains quick and they also as babies eat raw meat so when breeding be sure to feed them raw

They’re slow on land. You can basically walk/run backwards and hit them with tranq arrows.