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Uktena Favorite Fish — What to Serve in Scale the Depths

Uktena pays its best tip for Gafftopsail Catfish or Blue Catfish — here is exactly when to save that catch, what to avoid, and how the base and variant payouts compare.

▶ TL;DR

Serve Uktena Gafftopsail Catfish or Blue Catfish for its favorite tip (up to 1500 coins total). Avoid Bluegill, White Crappie, Summer Flounder….

Outer Banks
Uktena
Favorite
Gafftopsail Catfish, Blue Catfish
Avoid
Bluegill, White Crappie, Summer Flounder, Chain Pickerel +8
Max payout
1500 coins

◇ How to serve Uktena

Uktena appears in Outer Banks and pays a favorite tip for Gafftopsail Catfish or Blue Catfish. Gafftopsail Catfish is Uktena's signature — no other customer treats it as a favorite, so any Gafftopsail Catfish you land has exactly one ideal buyer.

Uktena pays up to 1500 coins (1200 base plus a 300 favorite tip). That puts it among the more valuable customers in its world, so clearing its favorite threshold is worth the extra scaling care.

Uktena is picky: it dislikes 12 different fish (Bluegill, White Crappie, Summer Flounder, Chain Pickerel, Hogfish, Northern Red Snapper, and more). Serving any of these cuts the payout, so when Uktena is on screen, check your catch against the avoid list before you plate it.

◇ Where to catch Uktena’s favorite

Gafftopsail Catfish is caught in Outer Banks — the same world where you meet Uktena, so you can serve it fresh without backtracking. It has 95 health and a feed value of 240. Scale it cleanly to clear Uktena’s favorite threshold and bank the 300-coin tip.

Blue Catfish is caught in Outer Banks — the same world where you meet Uktena, so you can serve it fresh without backtracking. It has 130 health and a feed value of 380. Scale it cleanly to clear Uktena’s favorite threshold and bank the 300-coin tip.

Full stats for every catch are in the fish almanac.

✓ Tips

  • Keep the fish quality high: the 300-coin tip only lands if Gafftopsail Catfish clears Uktena's favorite threshold, so clean scaling matters more than speed here.

! Watch out

  • With 12 disliked fish, a wrong serve to Uktena is easy — the safest move is to only ever hand it Gafftopsail Catfish.

? Frequently asked

What is Uktena's favorite fish in Scale the Depths?

Uktena's favorite fish are Gafftopsail Catfish and Blue Catfish. Serving either at a high enough scaling quality adds a 300-coin tip on top of the 1200 base payment.

What fish does Uktena dislike?

Uktena dislikes Bluegill, White Crappie, Summer Flounder, Chain Pickerel, Hogfish, Northern Red Snapper, Longnose Gar, Atlantic Herring, Red Herring, Slippery Dick, Black Sea Bass, Fathead Minnow. Serving any of these lowers the payout, so keep them for a customer who wants them instead.

How much does Uktena pay in Scale the Depths?

Uktena pays up to 1500 coins — 1200 base plus a 300 favorite tip when you clear the threshold.

▶ Put it into practice

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

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