Aberrant Manta
CreatureVariant
Breeding calculator
Aberrant Manta
SettingsHatch 1× · Mature 1× · Food 1× · Weight 200
Baby: The hatched dinosaur, now a baby, needs constant attention and food placed directly in its inventory to survive, or a nearby Maewing to take care of its needs.
- Gestation
- 8h 0m 0s
- Maturation
- 37h 2m 13s
- Food at birth
- 59.03/min
Maturation Progress
- Status:
- Baby
- Time Left:
- 35:11:06
- Total Time:
- 37:02:13
Maturation
- Incubation Time
- 8h 0m 0s
Elapsed Time- 1h 51m 7s
- Maturation Time Left
- 35h 11m 6s
Time to Juvenile- 1h 51m 7s
Food
- Total Food Items
- 1312items
- Food to Adult
- 856items
- Food Per Hour
- 68
Food Capacity- 100items
Baby Hand Feed For- 14m 59s5.7% maturation
Imprinting
- Cuddle interval
- 8h
- Imprint per cuddle
- 22.8%
- Maximum imprint
- 91.2% (4 cuddles)
Settings8 h · interval ×1 · amount ×1
Raising food
- Food per item
- 50
Stack size- 40
- Eats at 5%
- 56.08 food/min
- Maturation
- 37h 2m 13s
| Stage | Time remaining | Food points | Raw Meat | Stacks | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BabyNeed this much for 5% to 10% | 1h 51m 6s | 6,067 | 122 | 4 | 12.2 |
| JuvenileNeed this much for 10% to 50% | 14h 48m 53s | 36,728 | 735 | 19 | 73.5 |
| AdolescentNeed this much for 50% to 100% | 18h 31m 6s | 16,396 | 328 | 9 | 32.8 |
| Total | 35h 11m 6s | 1,185 | 32 | 118.5 |
Total: 1,185 Raw Meat
- Feeding Trough
- 2,400 items (60 slots)Fits in one load
Tek Trough- 4,000 items (100 slots)Fits in one load
- Maewing / Maeguana
- 300 slots50% weight reduction on meat & berries
- Baby - 3x trough refills needed (food spoils before phase ends)
- Juvenile - 23x trough refills needed (food spoils before phase ends)
- Adolescent - 28x trough refills needed (food spoils before phase ends)
Spoils in 10m | Trough / Maewing: 40m | Tek Trough: 16h 40m
During the Baby phase (0-10%), you must hand-feed or use a Maewing to nurse. From Juvenile (10%+), dinos can eat from a Feeding Trough on their own. Use Preserving Salt in troughs to double spoil times.
More about breeding the Aberrant Manta
Instead of laying eggs, the Aberrant Manta carries its young through a gestation period. Gestation takes approximately 8 hours at default rates.
After hatching or birth, the baby Aberrant Manta matures requiring significant patience, reaching adulthood in about 1 day and 13 hours at 1x maturation. Hand-feeding is required until 10% maturation. After that, a Feeding Trough handles the rest.
Mutations can add +2 levels to any stat and change colors. Stacking mutations across generations is the key to min-maxed breeding lines. Use the breeding calculator to plan food requirements, incubation timers, and maturation phases.
Raising a baby Aberrant Manta involves three maturation 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 Aberrant Manta's stats, and hitting 100% grants a 30% combat bonus when the imprinter rides it. Imprint requests include cuddling, walks, and specific kibble - check the wiki for which kibble to stockpile.
Planning a mass raise? The Aberrant Manta raising calculator breaks down food needs per phase so nothing goes to waste. Expect ~222 minutes of active care during the Baby phase before it graduates to trough-feeding as a Juvenile.
Adjust the dino count to calculate food for multiple Aberrant Manta babies at once - essential for batch breeding operations. Match your food choice to your play schedule - longer spoil timers mean less babysitting.
The Aberrant Manta is a tamable, aquatic, carnivore creature in ARK: Survival Ascended. Classified under the Variant group.
At 307 base HP, the Aberrant Manta is moderately tough. Melee starts at 106% - respectable melee power that scales with level-ups. Its base Stamina of 270 gives it decent staying power. A base Weight of 200 means modest carrying capacity.
This is a passive tame: no tranquilizers needed. Get close without startling it, then offer food from your last hotbar slot. Its preferred food is AnglerGel.
As a tame, the Aberrant Manta is well-suited for deep-sea exploration, cave diving, and ocean resource runs. It gives live birth after a gestation period, making breeding straightforward. Killing a wild Aberrant Manta yields 4 base XP. It can be cloned at a Cloning Chamber for 0.21 Element plus 0.01 Element per level.