They may seem easy to tame, but can be a pain.

Most likely, you NEED either flippers or an aquatic mount. They get pretty interested on you and your creatures at first, but once you touch them, they switch to the approach and flee behavior usually seem in aggreasive creatures. If you are fast enough, however, they won't reach you and you can now kite it to your trap, just close it as fast as you can.

Another option is finding / waiting for a beached specimen, so you can just place some gates around it.

I had a mega and these guys kept swarming around me, not attacking. I guess a mega attracts these guys as friends. Either way if you want to take a lot of these guys just swim with a mega for a bit and like 5 will be following you. They continue to follow after feeding too so they just sit there as you tame them instead of running off

What ever you do when taming don’t try to knock these guys out after I first started ark I thought they were knock out tames so every time I tried I would kill them so remember there passive tames

Please read the whole thing if you're here because the water creatures aggroed on you. Sorry for bad grammar. I am playing on mobile btw

I know this sounds really dumb. The de aggro ability will only work if you tame it with fish meat or prime fish meat. If you use normal meat or prime meat, you will get a better taming effectiveness but every aggressive water creature will still aggro on you. No one has said this before. I just tested it right now. I tamed a high level one tamed with raw meat. Everything aggroed on me. It surprised me because i tamed one not too long ago and nothing aggroed me back then. That got me thinking and I got this idea. I tamed a low level one with fish meat and nothing aggroed it. Consider testing it yourself before disliking this tip

On mobile ichty ks still attacked by every aggressive creatures, ive tried it on different saves it is still the same result

Can someone please help me, I’ve tamed multiple ichthyosaurus and every time I go near an aggressive creature I get attacked, please someone help.

If you know what’s happening and u have discord please dm me

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Spelt exactly like that.

FINAL CONCLUSION: itchys don't get aggroed when you tame them, but when they die and you revive them, they get aggroed on.

Once you have a raft, get some meat and head on over to Herbivore Island. (Bottom right corner of the map on The Island) These guys are EVERYWHERE there. If you’re lucky, you can find one in the bay where it’s super safe, but a lot spawn by the island’s coasts as well. Herbivore Island is good in my opinion because you don’t have to worry about the threats on land, and the water is relatively safe as well. These guys are super important, as they basically open the door to underwater exploration and taming.

I have three and they ganged on a meg. Megs don’t Argo on them (at least on mobile)

Build a small trap with dino gate partially above water. Land on water with Pelagornis and once they come to play, lead them with Pelagornis through gate, hop off, close gate. Build the trap close to their spawn or they will lose interest before you get them in.

Take a dolphin they say. Nothing will agro they say. This may be true for mobile but believe me you this isn't true for console.

Tame, cuz passive tame

Swim around, tame megalodon

Thats about its only use

Listen I thought these guys were useless, but me and another player tame a couple out of boredom and WOW THEY ARE AWESOME. A level 30 and 126 killed a 135 alpha meg! Do not ignore these guys when they swarm you.

My added tip for MOBILE players: The Icthies can get attacked once by a Meg if you attack it. So be sure to always have a good saddle. I also use this guy to tame a Basilosaurus. Please NOTE that 1: Feed the Basilo WHILE on the Icthy. 2: Always have good saddle. Kill everything that can aggro on the basilo once tamed. 3: Beware of Megs. Tested on Mobile. They bite once on your first few bites and if you survive it they will de-aggro and NOT bite anymore no matter how many times you bite them. But MANTAS will not aggro on you no matter how many times you bite them. Mantas will literally be searching for you swimming in circles.

@Mini’s missing. Because your on mobile you can request her. But do so only underwater or she’ll get beached.

This guy gets ignored by EVERYTHING sea creatures land creatures by anything but only jellyfish attack only if you hit it but if you miss its sting i will become passive and will let you kill it very good creature to tame :3

Remember that you can request them and you will only loose the items

These things are FAST. I swam around the entire island in half a DAY. They do get hungery pretty quickly tho so stuff some meat in their inventory for a long swim

I have read comments that ichtys are being killed by other creatures. So you can take a bunch of these so they will attack the predator. Because after you tame they will attack if you whistle “attack”. Or you can place dinosaur gate.(these tips are for single player ark mobile). In multiplayer p v e mod you can place them near other players dinosaurs like the other players tamed mosasaur or megalodon,etc or you can use single player tips if you want to protect them yourself.

First you should pump loads of health and stamina