What do tamed spinos eat

[His Quivzness]

Raw meat or do i have to get fish? Never had one before and wanted to know.

[Jclar371]

Originally posted by His Quivzness:

Raw meat or do i have to get fish? Never had one before and wanted to know.

Meat, any dino that eats any type of meat will eat basic raw meat

[Brax]

Originally posted by Jclar371:

Originally posted by His Quivzness:

Raw meat or do i have to get fish? Never had one before and wanted to know.

Meat, any dino that eats any type of meat will eat basic raw meat

unless it only eats fish

[Onba]

I know for sure the pelagornis only eat fish and possibly the penguins too.

[His Quivzness]

Okay kewl.

A little more info... I had just finished making some kibble with cooked fish, and dumped the leftovers in my feeding trough. All the cooked fish got munched as soon as it hit the trough. The spino is the only new dino, but she's got like 80 raw meat stacked in her inventory, so even if it prefers fish it should only have eaten 1.

[His Quivzness]

All dinos:
dodo, dilo, raptor, rex, diplo, spino, dimo, pteranadon... and a mesopithicus. pretty sure thats it. So i don't know what decided to eat all the cooked fish instead of all the raw meat in the trough... Weird.

[Brax]

Originally posted by His Quivzness:

All dinos:
dodo, dilo, raptor, rex, diplo, spino, dimo, pteranadon... and a mesopithicus. pretty sure thats it. So i don't know what decided to eat all the cooked fish instead of all the raw meat in the trough... Weird.

If you have an otter - one of the most useful shoulder pets in the game... it was him. they only eat fish
if that's all you have just go around and find out which one has a smaller amount of the food icon full

[Rommell8]

that spino will die without Fish to eat..what trolls here

it eats meat to heal it,but needs fish like it tamed with

[Rommell8]

spino can drown too,try to not leave it in the water unattended

[Brax]

Originally posted by Rommell8:

that spino will die without Fish to eat..what trolls here

it eats meat to heal it,but needs fish like it tamed with

he already marked it answered tho

[EmberStar]

Originally posted by Brax:

Originally posted by Rommell8:

that spino will die without Fish to eat..what trolls here

it eats meat to heal it,but needs fish like it tamed with

he already marked it answered tho

Are you sure you're not confusing it with the baryonyx? It's been a while since I really played so it could have changed. But I'm pretty sure the last time I checked spinos preferred fish / prime fish for taming, but don't require it to survive. Otters, baryonyx and pelagornis will *only* eat fish. Possibly icthyornis (devil gulls) as well, but since I usually shotgun them on sight I can't be sure.

If you drop fish into a feeding trough though, *everything* that eats meat will eat the fish before anything else because apparently it's the "least filling" food for non fish eaters. I think at one point pets would eat their favorite food first, but that got changed when it resulted in a dino that picked up a stack of kibble (such as by "collecting your stuff" for you when you got killed) immediately slurping down the whole stack of kibble.

If you don't believe me it's easy enough to test. Take a couple of raptors and place them within range of an empty feeding bin, then feed them each a couple of stacks of stimberries so that they are hungry. In your inventory have an equal number of stacks of raw fish and raw meat. Search for "raw" so that just the meats are visible, then use "Transfer all" to dump all of both types into the bin at once. The raptors will eat their way through all the fish before they touch the meat, even though raw meat is a better food for them.

[Brax]

Originally posted by EmberStar:

I'm pretty sure the last time I checked spinos preferred fish / prime fish for taming, but don't require it to survive. Otters, baryonyx and pelagornis will *only* eat fish. Possibly icthyornis (devil gulls) as well, but since I usually shotgun them on sight I can't be sure.

Well, you're 100% correct but what odds do you put on OP actually reading it?

[Rommell8]

you can also test it,by force feeding your tame>if food bar won't move its not the type of food it needs

ps>make a 2nd feed trough for fish and lockout all other dinos from it except thefish eater

[His Quivzness]

Originally posted by EmberStar:

If you drop fish into a feeding trough though, *everything* that eats meat will eat the fish before anything else because apparently it's the "least filling" food for non fish eaters.

So fish is like 25 food or around there (going from memory) and meat is 50 food. So you're saying that any meat eating dino with more than 25 food missing, but less than 50 would chow on the fish rather than wait for the 50 food to be missing and eat their preferred meat.

That makes sense and would explain why the stack disappeared so fast. My list of dinos is all the types i have, but i have multiples, for example there are 4 raptors.

I tested force feeding my spino raw meat and he does eat it, so that actually answers my original post, so I'm not changing the post i chose as answer. But EmberStar's post gave me the answer to my situation, which i didn't actually ask in my original post.