Usually sorrounder by a bunch of unholy demons of the deep. If you have a bed set up nearby and decent oxygen levels you can just approach, feed then try to get as far away as possible before you get killed,then when you return the bodyguards have usually forgotten their job and started looking for other people to annoy

Punch mantas 1 by one and lead them to shore them kill them with a sword on edge tried it out and worked successfully mutton tamed a basilo 130 :))

Having at least a water critter would be your best bet when taming this. A sarco is a great suggestion, as it kills manta and can swim very fast.

WARNING: A lot of aggressive things get distracted by these things. But if you kill all the dangerous things it's easy to tame even with just normal meat

If you want to tame one, but cant wait until you have scuba gear, i would recommend a diplocaulus and a megalodon/baryonix for the mantas. This makes taming much easier

There is sometimes alot of mantas around it

This thing is so annoying take out all the mantas before taming because when I tamed I had all the mantas in the ocean on me

There is a glitch when taming, wait until 2x if you are going to use raw meat or else the taming bar with start rapidly going down at 80% ish and you will have to start again. (I only used raw meat and stayed by it the whole time)

Found one stuck in a shallow area of the southern shores, mantas ran away when I fed it and managed to keep it in one place as I tamed it good tame for early game players if lucky

Have a friend lure away the mantas away then go in with the kibble

Use a spino and bug repellent and this tame is easy as hell if you have a bat you can find them easily at night as well then go back in the day

How I got the mantas off was I shot the bassalosourus with normal arrows, got on my megalodon and killed the mantas, nothing else ever tried protecting it after

To tame have a mount in the water that can kill the Manta surrounding this creature. Once you agro the Mantas quickly get to your mount and have it kill the mob. Then swim close and start the tame.

There is usually one at herbivore island in the pond area and it is not too cold or hot in that area either so in my opinion, herbivore island is the best place to go for a basilo.

Tame a sino and make a scream and all the mantas will leave

Be careful all water creatures near it will attack you! When you feed it!

If you don’t want to worry about mantas or megs, use a Baryonyx. Pull everything in the area and spam stun, then chomp on the stunned enemies until everything is dead. Then you can just follow the Basilosaurus around without having to worry about enemies

The mantas need to be killed to take it

With my sarco I found this small whale.There were mantas around it

so I killed those mantas.wen I was done it told me to feed it fish.

So I fed it fish.It took a wile.then I tamed the bash.I brang it and

named it water.

What Iv tryed is cooked prime fish meat it takes about 30 minutes.