When fighting them for shell fragment farming, jump on the back of them and attack till they hit water surface, then you’ll be able to just attack sitting on top of them while it swims around... side note, if your tamed Dino clips through their model, it has a chance of auto dying... lost my 209 sarco when it was well above half health instantly because it clipped through the model of the turtle

These bad boys have insanely high hp, weight and damage aswell as a bubble breath which can push back enemies super far on land and can push enemies to the surface and stun em when in water. To top it all off they also have a platform saddle and are stupidly good at climbing things so you can use them for fights and holding a ton of stuff such as a base without being too restricted on where you can go

You must be DISMOUNTED when trying to initially get the microbe swarm to aggro the turtle. After that, you may re-mount. As long as a player (any tribe, possibly unintended) is in very close proximity to the turtle, it will tame at a static rate regardless of level. It takes ~30-45 mins to tame without reset.

I play official and have tamed a couple of these there simple but hard to tame first u want to trap it then u might need a second player to stay close to it so it won’t go out of the trap when u get out of tender distance then u find the swarm fish and u can use the HLNA drone to scan the fish to see what lvl the swarm is depending on the lvl the less swarm fish u need so if u find a 150 swarm u will be able to tame any lvl megachelon off that single swarm but u must sit there and watch it when I did it the first time I wasn’t looking and it kept resetting the taming bar even tho there were not enemies nearby so u have to keep watching it while it tamed or u can tame it with the glitch and all u have to do is do the same thing except soon as u Afro the swarm fish on the turtle use HLNA to teleport away and watch ur tribe log for when u tame it it will tame eventually while ur at ur base doing whatever hope this helps 👍🏿

The best area to tame is Ocean: SW. I found plenty of them swimming around, including the 150 male I have tamed. There is a trench that spawns the fish swarm, guide it to the giant turtle & YOU CAN WATCH FROM A DISTANCE! You do not need to be near the turtle for it to continue taming, bring a swimming tame that’s fast enough to guide Megalodon‘s to another turtle so you’re taming progress doesn’t reset when they bite you’re turtle. This took over an hour with taming 3x. Hope this helps!

4 ways to tame on launch. Spoiler alert they all suck this is definitely the hardest tame in the game. I’m sure a few of the methods will be patched. 1. Trap it on land. Then knock it out with bio-darts. 2. Clip into turtle and feed it. 3. Find swarm and slowly lead it to turtle (swarm attacks player even when mounted so don’t die) then protect it while the tame feeds on the swarm. 4. After the swarm has initially attached to turtle. You can still swim with the turtle to tame it(works on mounts). Even if the swarm dies or Aggros another creature. But you still have to protect it from being hit or it will reset to 0%. Just tamed one on Xbox using method 4.

Get the turtle in open water if possible by aggroing it to avoid it getting caught on reef or land. If it stops moving the salmon make quick work of your parakeet taming school of fish, and game over...Clear any big nasties, reset aggro on the parakeet fish by getting out of render distance and then kite them (dismounted) onto the turrle. Once the parakeet fish are on the turtle, swim around behind , rotating to face it as it circles. Position yourself between any coelocanth or salmon that spawn, facing them as they try to munch through your taming school of fish. Make sure you face AWAY from the turtle, and stab away with a pike. Only way i tried that worked solo.....