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Equip the pets that give your current lineup the strongest Money bonuses. Compare base-level income first, then use hunting speed, catch volume and rarity ceilings to choose between close alternatives.
Recommendations for equipping owned pets at base level, prioritizing Money bonuses. Hunting benefits provide additional context; hatch value is a separate choice.
Leading late-game Money choices with strong multi-fish hunting.
×10 Money and 50 fish every 30 seconds, with an Endless catch ceiling. The nine-pet Abyss pool gives it a 0.05% hatch chance.
×7.5 Money and 35 fish every 30 seconds, with a Genesis ceiling. A strong income choice when already owned.
×6 Money and 30 fish every 30 seconds, with a Boundless ceiling, place it ahead of the lower-Money alternatives.
Strong Money upgrades beyond the developing lineup.
×4.5 Money plus 25 fish every 30 seconds and a Supreme ceiling make it a strong income and hunting combination.
The Halloween Ocean pet offers ×4 Money, ahead of Voidmaw and the other lower-Money Ocean pets at base level.
×3 Money with one fish every 25 seconds and a Divine ceiling gives it strong Ocean-pet income value.
×2.75 Money combines with 16 fish every 30 seconds and a Forbidden ceiling.
Its ×2.5 Money bonus exceeds Tidecaller Manta and Bloodtide Orca for the same base-level income goal.
Useful developing income choices, with meaningful hunting differences.
×2.25 Money and 14 fish every 30 seconds make it a useful step above Bloodtide for both Money and catch volume.
×2 Money improves on Sunfang Shark; it also shortens trips to 35 seconds and raises the ceiling to Demigod.
×1.75 Money ties Sunfang Shark, while 12 fish every 30 seconds favors duplicate volume.
×1.75 Money and a Mythic ceiling are useful upgrades over starter Ocean pets; it brings one fish every 40 seconds.
Starter Money bonuses; keep useful hunters until a better income pet is available.
×1.5 Money trails the higher income choices, but ten fish every 30 seconds make it useful for catch volume.
×1.5 Money improves on Snapjaw Turtle, Stingwing Ray and Bigmouth Bass for base-level income.
×1.35 Money is a clear starter improvement over Stingwing and Bigmouth, with an Epic catch ceiling.
×1.2 Money improves on Bigmouth Bass, with one fish every 55 seconds and a Rare ceiling.
×1.1 Money is a starting bonus. Spare copies can raise it to ×1.12 at Level 2 while shortening trips from 60 to 58.2 seconds.
These tiers rank owned pets by their base-level or Level 1 Money bonus while equipped. S-tier pets offer the strongest income bonuses, A-tier pets provide substantial upgrades, B-tier pets suit a developing lineup, and C-tier pets provide starter bonuses.
Choose the highest Money value available within a tier. Hunting benefits help break income ties or justify a different choice when collecting fish matters more. A catch ceiling is the highest rarity a pet can bring back, not the rarity of every catch.
Evercoil Serpent is the strongest base-level income choice, with Dawnmother Whale and Riftborn Leviathan next. Their hunting also supports that order: they bring back 50, 35 and 30 fish respectively every 30 seconds, with Endless, Genesis and Boundless catch ceilings. Evercoil and Dawnmother each have a 1-in-200 chance per trip of catching their highest rarity; Riftborn's Boundless chance is 1% per trip.
Below those three, Deepcrown Sovereign combines ×4.5 Money with 25 fish every 30 seconds and a Supreme ceiling. Wraithlantern Kraken, the Halloween Ocean pet, offers ×4 Money if you already own it. That puts it ahead of Voidmaw Leviathan at ×3, Blightspine Dragonfish at ×2.75 and Seraph Serpent at ×2.5 for base-level income.
Voidmaw and Blightspine illustrate the tradeoff between income and hunting: choose Voidmaw for its higher Money bonus, or Blightspine for 16 fish every 30 seconds and a Forbidden ceiling. Voidmaw brings back one fish every 25 seconds, up to Divine.
For closer choices, use these comparisons at base level:
| Choice | Income recommendation | Hunting tradeoff |
|---|---|---|
| Tidecaller Manta vs. Bloodtide Orca | Choose Tidecaller: ×2.25 versus ×2 Money. | Both reach Demigod. Tidecaller brings 14 fish every 30 seconds with a 5% Demigod chance per trip; Bloodtide brings one every 35 seconds with a 3.9% chance per trip. |
| Hexfang Viperfish vs. Sunfang Shark | Both provide ×1.75 Money. Prefer Hexfang when you also want catch volume. | Both reach Mythic. Hexfang brings 12 fish every 30 seconds; Sunfang brings one every 40 seconds. Their Mythic chances are 5% and 6.7% per trip, respectively. |
| Lanternjaw Angler vs. Sunfang Shark | Choose Sunfang for income: ×1.75 versus ×1.5 Money. | Lanternjaw brings ten fish every 30 seconds but reaches Epic; Sunfang reaches Mythic. Choose Lanternjaw when bulk catches matter more than the extra Money bonus. |
The catch chances above apply per trip, not independently to every fish in a multi-fish catch.
For a starter income lineup, Razorfang Barracuda's ×1.5 beats Snapjaw Turtle's ×1.35, Stingwing Ray's ×1.2 and Bigmouth Bass's ×1.1 at base level. Lanternjaw ties Razorfang on Money while offering its ten-fish trips. Keep using your best available bonus as you work toward a stronger pet.
Open Cooler → Pets and compare the Money values on your owned pets. Duplicate upgrades can change a close comparison: Bigmouth Bass rises from ×1.1 at Level 1 to ×1.12 at Level 2, while its trip time falls from 60 to 58.2 seconds. That upgrade still leaves it below a base-level Stingwing Ray at ×1.2, so leveling a starter does not automatically make it the better income choice.
The +1 Pet Slot pass unlocks a second equipped pet. Both pets hunt simultaneously, and their Money bonuses add together. Do not multiply the two card multipliers to calculate a combined bonus.
For income, select your two highest actual Money values and assign them with Slot 1 and Slot 2 in Cooler → Pets. At base level, Evercoil and Dawnmother are the preferred pair among these pets. If you are also collecting fish, use catch volume and rarity ceilings to decide whether a lower-Money hunter deserves a slot. See the pet equipping and leveling guide for the full controls and duplicate-upgrade details.
Equip Evercoil or Dawnmother when you own them, but their strength alone is not a reason to keep buying random crates. Evercoil has a 0.05% hatch chance in the nine-pet Abyss pool; Dawnmother has a 0.1% chance in Abyss pools that include it. Those are chances per crate, not guaranteed results after a set number of purchases.
Compare the whole pool with your current lineup before spending. If you already use a base-level Bloodtide Orca at ×2 Money, Lanternjaw at ×1.5 and Hexfang at ×1.75 would not replace it as your stronger income pet, although they offer larger catches per trip. Ocean Crates also have boss-reward, Crew-reward and Pearl-purchase routes. Use the Ocean vs. Abyss Crates comparison to compare acquisition routes, pool versions, odds and prices.
