If you are raising a baby keep in mind that their food drops faster than they can eat, so you have to force feed them until their food bar is full or else they will eventually starve to death even with food in their inventory. If you are on singleplayer you can also leave and rejoin your game to make the basilo instantly eat the food in its inventory until the food bar is full or there is no more food in its inventory.

If one spawns 3 mantas will automatically spawn near it, and start following it and group up near its belly. If you feed a basilo every ichthy/megalodon/manta near the basilo will automatically take one damage (the game inflicts the damage as if it was inflicted by you), then get angry at you and start chasing you. You should then run away if your tame can't kill the mantas quickly because mantas do more damage through armor like saddles than other creatures, so your tame's health might get shredded in seconds.

I have a tip to share on how to deal with the Mantas and Megalodons that are surrounding the area where the Basilosaurus roams. Make sure to go with a high level Baryonyx because of its underwater stun ability and damage in general. Make sure to damage one manta so they will all start following you. Then lead them away and kill them. Killing the Megs is easier in my opinion, plus you can gather them all in one place, stun them and start killing them!

Not to hard to tame, they like to stay near the surface and they usually spawn more in the northern part of the island. Prime meat is the best to use, and remember it’s a passive tame and it won’t aggrieved unless you it but watch for mantas which will follow the basilo and attack you when you feed it, after the first feed it takes a couple minutes to feed again but after the second one, it only takes around 10 seconds for each feed.

I recommend erheir raw prime, or raw prime fish meat.

I tamed mine with raw prime fish meat only, no soothing balm. I actually was pretty lucky, because a basilo spawned next to a leed, and a leed spawns next to a basilo. So I took all the leed's raw prime fish meat, and put it in my Bary. I fed it constantly, aware of oxygen.

Finally, I tamed it and named it Silo. Saddles are suprisingly unexpensive. These also spawn by Herbivore Island. Along with leeds. So I you see a basilo, look for a leed if you a trying to find one. Everytime I see a basilo, I see a leed. Be careful! When you feed it the mantas attack. Recommened mount, baryonx. Baryonx will stun the mantas, and you will be able to feed the basilo while on baryonx too. They come in variants of dark blue, or a pink, magenta color. They have a good bit of health, and do not aggro on you when you get close to it. Have fun with your basilo, if you read this. Goodbye -TinaZ

Haven’t seen anyone talking about this, but wild Basilos are useful in another way: taming lots of Mantas!

The Mantas that spawn around Basilosaurus are still dangerous, but unlike other Mantas they WON’T aggro if you’re simply nearby or accidentally touch them. With enough AnglerGel, you can tame a whole school without a problem and then tame the Basilo after you’re done. Plus now it’ll have its own personal bodyguards!

Just watch out for other wild Mantas, though. If you aggro them, even the Basilosaurus’s Mantas will attack you.

Idk how no one has said this yet. If you want to tame one in mobile just use an ichyosaurus. No one attacks you and they are incredibly fast. The perfect underwater tame. Also useful for any other underwater thing cos even if u attack something it doesn’t attack back. Except moss for some reason. Anyway up for free underwater tames