While taming note that you should enable first person on your character not your dino because if you accidentally swim upwards it will shift all attention toward you in third person it happened to me two or three times so to new players this is a tipe from me and also it does a crap ton of damage so if you bring a mosa say with a primitive saddle it should have 20k+ hp or just set dino damage to 0.1

While taming it, always go for the mouth in order to feed it. Learned that the hard way. 🦂

Be careful while fighting an alpha! even though they cannot grab another tuso or basilo they can trap you in a way you can't move

Found out today that when taming one you can have it grab wild dinos instead of your own tames, I had a beached one grab a wild trike and tamed it with that

(ON MOBILE)This is one of the easiest things i have ever tamed it only took one stack of black pearls and x10 soothing balm

U can get a free soothing balm by taking artifact of the hunter to the green obilisk (idk how to spell it)

Don’t make the mistake of attacking it with an itchy and thinking it won’t attack back it will, even if it says it don’t want to be tamed now and it annoys you don’t attack

On the Crystal Isle, in the tropical area where tropical crystal wyverns spawn. You can find them beached along the beaches. They'll only grab land creatures so keep that in mind

Never upgrade stamina just upgrade melee damage coz that's why you tame this squids

The beached tuso on crystal isles can be tamed you just have to hit it on few times while on your tame and stand infront of tentacles. It will put you through the mesh but when you get off youll pop back up feed pearls and repeat until tamed. Your tame will also pop back up when it lets go

You can grapple things and reverse drown them by forcing them out of the water, I've done this to an alpha megalodon, you can just take the items from their corpse once they're dead. Sometimes you've gotta push stuff up twice but it's pretty quick and efficient.

FOR MOBILE PLAYERS!!! If u have soothing balm, then even for a lvl 150 of these, u just need 50 black pearls, so yeah, u only gotta feed it once, takes 2 seconds! Have fun!

Alpha squids are the strongest alpha in the game they have the most hp and damage increase per level and the slight fact that they grab any tame that isn't a basilo or another squid makes them even worse.

Won't dismount if stung. Or zapped.

Only real threats to a good one are alphas because you can't grab them.

Scary big death squid

That will kill your favorite mount if nothing to grab onto

You can use turtles to tame this but you will need some with a lot of health and good saddles

I think one of the easiest ways to get black pearls is to get a mosa keep leveling health and damage about 15K hp and 300-400 damage. Then find and destroy the alpha mosa. (you might want a saddle with good armor) Bring a Megalodon or other creature to the squid, once he is grabbed very quickly swim to the squid and feed the pearls you got from the alpha. That is how I have tamed my two squids and it works very well. (I play mobile so I don’t know in it will work on pc or xbox)

I used a tame deino with a 96 asc saddle and 36k health . The only real hassle is the wait time between feeds . I fed a 150 once and then just kept swimming in circles till the food meter went down , usually takes about 500 less food Loss to be ready for next feed . Try to wipe out the area around , it’s a hassle when a random tuso can grab you and it’s stuck in the wall.

Use a Dunkleosteus instead, get 100 or 200 black pearls in your inventory (consumes 50 black pearls per feed)

On mobile, despite dunkleos existing, tusos are even better at gathering oil. They can easily kill basilos and gather hundreds of oil. On top of this, they are quicker and have better melee.

What it means by nonviolent tame is it you are nonviolent it can be as violent as it wants