Outer Banks · Customer favorite

Loggerhead Sea Turtle Favorite Fish — What to Serve in Scale the Depths

Loggerhead Sea Turtle pays its best tip for Red Swamp Crayfish — here is exactly when to save that catch, what to avoid, and how the base and variant payouts compare.

▶ TL;DR

Serve Loggerhead Sea Turtle Red Swamp Crayfish for its favorite tip (up to 192 coins total). Avoid Summer Flounder.

Outer Banks
Loggerhead Sea Turtle
Favorite
Red Swamp Crayfish
Avoid
Summer Flounder
Max payout
192 coins

◇ How to serve Loggerhead Sea Turtle

Loggerhead Sea Turtle appears in Outer Banks and pays a favorite tip for Red Swamp Crayfish. Red Swamp Crayfish is Loggerhead Sea Turtle's signature — no other customer treats it as a favorite, so any Red Swamp Crayfish you land has exactly one ideal buyer.

There are two versions of Loggerhead Sea Turtle. The base pays up to 131 (105 base + 26 tip); the rarer variant pays up to 192, a 61-coin jump for the same fish. A variant of Loggerhead Sea Turtle is always worth serving over the base when both are on screen — same catch, bigger payout.

Keep Summer Flounder away from Loggerhead Sea Turtle — it is the one fish that lowers its payout. Everything else is fair game as long as it fills the hunger of 145.

◇ Where to catch Loggerhead Sea Turtle’s favorite

Red Swamp Crayfish is caught in Outer Banks — the same world where you meet Loggerhead Sea Turtle, so you can serve it fresh without backtracking. It has 25 health and a feed value of 52. Scale it cleanly to clear Loggerhead Sea Turtle’s favorite threshold and bank the 26-coin tip.

Full stats for every catch are in the fish almanac.

✓ Tips

  • If you can already satisfy Loggerhead Sea Turtle, its variant is free extra income — the favorite and dislike lists are identical, only the numbers scale up.
  • Keep the fish quality high: the 26-coin tip only lands if Red Swamp Crayfish clears Loggerhead Sea Turtle's favorite threshold, so clean scaling matters more than speed here.

? Frequently asked

What is Loggerhead Sea Turtle's favorite fish in Scale the Depths?

Loggerhead Sea Turtle's favorite fish is Red Swamp Crayfish. Serving it at a high enough scaling quality adds a 26-coin tip on top of the 105 base payment.

What fish does Loggerhead Sea Turtle dislike?

Loggerhead Sea Turtle dislikes Summer Flounder. Serving any of these lowers the payout, so keep them for a customer who wants them instead.

How much does Loggerhead Sea Turtle pay in Scale the Depths?

The base Loggerhead Sea Turtle pays up to 131 coins and its rarer variant pays up to 192. Both share the same favorite and dislike lists.

▶ Put it into practice

Keep the full customer matchmaker open while you play, then match Loggerhead Sea Turtle to the right catch and bank the tip. Scale the Depths runs free in your browser.

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