The best and if not only Dino to gather pearls with great efficiency! Gathers about 5 times more pearls than you pick up by hand. Level stamina and weight as melee is not worth the investment.
Angler

What ARK players use the Angler for, and how to get the most out of it in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
I think that the angler fish antenna should have a blindness attack
Get them u can get so for days get the THEY AR FREACKING AWESOME vote for ark to make a new skin it needs a new look
Make them breed, then kill the babies to have an anglergel farm, or keep em for more pearls, up to u!
When breeding anglers, pick up a baby angler in a fish basket and then release it. It will instantly become an adult
Taming this bad boy since the patch update you can chew silica pearls off the ocean bed an get 60 for pearl spawn, 15k plus easily
Unbelievable pearl farmer 60 to 70 pearls per shell
Angler gel can be used in fireplace substitutes as wood
It’s way more than 6 minutes per one gel depending on what you’re using it in. 6 minutes in a campfire. Well over 30 minutes in a standing torch.
amazing on aberration. just tame one, cryopod it, and put it in fertile lake and you’ll wake our with 15,000 pearls each run.
These things gather alot of silica pearls
Anglerfish are excellent harvesters for collecting silica pearls
They are very good at harvesting pearls. Another good use is their incredible gel. You get way more gel from an angler than from snails.
I went out of my way to tame this for black pearls but I realized my 140% apprentice pickaxe gathers slightly more than the angler even though I pumped points into melee.
Wow what a Bob fish ! The best tame for underwater exploration! lvl 216 with good stats! Amazing! :-)
You can ride them!!! 🤯😱
-WhiteWinterTiger
An angler combined with a flying tame is the best way to get silica pearls to your base, take a flying tame with lots of weight when you are collecting silica pears, when you're done dump all the pearls into your flier and fly back to your base
If you had these guys to light up your water pens it's time to dust them off. They now gather pearls.
It now gathers silica pearls, ~50 per clam. New best way to farm pearls!
This tame is good for running drops in water it is fast and has more hp then itchies