After a successful mate, the Rift Anglerfish lays a fertilized egg. Incubation temperature must stay between -75°C and 75°C - use Air Conditioners, Standing Torches, or Dimetrodons to maintain the range. At the correct temperature, the egg hatches in approximately 4 hours and 59 minutes.

Full maturation from baby to adult takes ~1 day and 13 hours (1x rate), progressing slowly. Hand-feeding is required until 10% maturation. After that, a Feeding Trough handles the rest.

Each baby inherits stats from both parents with a chance of mutation - +2 wild levels to a random stat plus a color change. Use the breeding calculator to plan food requirements, incubation timers, and maturation phases.

Maturation has three phases: Baby (0–10%) lasts ~222 min and requires constant hand-feeding. Juvenile (10–50%) spans ~15h - it can eat from a Trough now. Adolescent (50–100%) takes ~19h - continues eating from troughs, nearly fully grown.

Don't skip imprinting - each successful imprint boosts the Rift Anglerfish's stats, and hitting 100% grants a 30% combat bonus when the imprinter rides it. Keep various kibble types on hand, as imprint requests are randomized between cuddles, walks, and kibble feeding.

The raising calculator above shows exactly how much food you need for each maturation phase of the Rift Anglerfish. Budget ~222 minutes for the Baby phase - this is when hand-feeding or Maewing nursing is mandatory.

Raising multiple Rift Anglerfish simultaneously? Set the dino count and the calculator scales food requirements automatically. Different food types have different spoil timers - factor that into which food you stockpile.

The Rift Anglerfish is an aquatic, carnivore creature in ARK: Survival Ascended. It belongs to the Variant category.

Its base Stamina of 240 gives it moderate endurance. Melee starts at 100% - decent hitting power that scales with level-ups. With 450 base Health, the Rift Anglerfish is moderately tough. Weight capacity starts at 350, giving it a solid weight pool.

The Rift Anglerfish is a wild creature that cannot be tamed through conventional methods. Breeding produces fertilized eggs that hatch within a -75°C–75°C temperature window. Defeating one in the wild grants 8 base XP. It can be cloned at a Cloning Chamber for 0.17 Element plus 0.01 Element per level.