Steal an Egg Abyss Ocean: Beluga Whale, Whale Shark, El Maja and the 2,500,000 Speed gate

At equal size, take the Beluga Whale if both are in reach, and take whichever one you find if only one is. The two eggs are almost perfectly balanced: each returns about $70K/s of income per minute of grow time, and the Beluga's extra $150K/s is paid for with two extra minutes in the pen.

Here is the working. Plant both at the same moment. The Whale Shark hatches at 10 minutes and pays $70m. By the 12-minute mark it has added 120 seconds at $700K/s, so it stands at $154m when the Beluga hatches and pays $85m. That leaves a $69m gap closing at $150K/s, which takes 460 seconds, or 7m 40s. So the Beluga draws level 19m 40s after planting and stays ahead from then on. If you expect to keep the pet for more than 20 minutes, the Beluga is the better egg. All the catch-up sums on this page make one assumption: the wiki labels the field only "Reward" and does not say when it is paid, so we read it as paid on hatching, with income starting from the same moment.

Do not wait for one, though. The wiki's Drop Rates page, which says its figures came from the game files, lists Whale Shark at 3.412663 and Beluga at 2.616375, so the Whale Shark turns up 1.3 times as often. Suppose you pass up a Whale Shark and a Beluga is guaranteed at the next 5-minute reset. It hatches at 17 minutes, by which point the Whale Shark you skipped would stand at $364m. The Beluga starts $279m behind and needs another 31 minutes to catch up, 48 minutes in all, and that is the best case. Real resets carry no such guarantee.

Size matters more than species. The wiki's Mutations page gives income as base × (actual weight ÷ base weight)^(37/60) below 125 times base weight. A Whale Shark needs ×1.214 to match a plain Beluga at base weight, which that formula reaches at about 1.37 times its own base weight. So a clearly larger Whale Shark beats a small Beluga, and the Eggs page's warning applies: larger eggs are worth more, but they are heavier and you will be slower. Mutations are less forgiving of the gap than you might expect: a Silver Whale Shark (×1.2) earns $840K/s, still $10K/s under a plain Beluga, whereas a Golden one (×2.5) earns $1.75M/s. Try your own figures in /steal-an-egg-calculator.

Each egg hatches the pet it is named after. Rarity, income, grow time and reward below come from each pet's infobox; the eight values on the wiki's Drop Rates page sum to 100, within a millionth, so each reads as a share of spawns. Every cash reward is exactly 100 times the pet's income, as in Forest and Volcano, so a hatch pays 100 seconds of income up front.

The steps between rarities are large. Orca to Whale Shark is ×8.75 in income, and Beluga to Kraken ×17.6, and that second jump costs 2h 3m of extra grow time. The Speed column barely moves in comparison, rising 2.5 times from bottom to top while income rises nearly 600,000 times. That shape tells you what the zone is for: income, with Speed as a side effect.

The wiki disagrees with itself here, and by a factor of ten. The Abyss Ocean zone page (rev 2738, a rewrite by one editor on 4 November 2026) prints every Speed reward at a tenth of the figure on the pet's own infobox: Parrotfish +7.2K against +72k, Beluga Whale +12.6K against +126k, El Maja +18K against +180k. All eight pets differ by the same factor. Income and cash match on all eight.

This page uses the infoboxes, and the reason is the ladder around them. Volcano, the zone before, tops out at Lava Dragon's +60k. Prehistoric, the zone after, starts at Dodo's +240k. Infobox rewards of +72k to +180k sit neatly between the two. The zone page's +7.2K to +18K would put Abyss Ocean below Volcano's lowest reward, Lava Gecko at +24k. All eight of those figures are also exactly Jungle's eight rewards (+7.2K, +8.1K, +9K, +9.9K, +10.8K, +12.6K, +14.4K, +18K), and seven of them repeat on Desert's cards, which is what a copying slip would look like. That is our inference; the wiki itself says nothing about it.

The difference is not a footnote. Getting from this zone's 2,500,000 gate to Prehistoric's 18M on Parrotfish rewards alone takes 216 hatches on the infobox and 2,153 on the zone page: 4.5 hours of grow time or nearly 45. If the game shows a different figure, trust the game over both pages.

The chart makes the zone's shape plain: on a log scale the eight bars climb steadily, which hides how lopsided the real money is. Weight each income by its value on the wiki's Drop Rates page and the average egg here is worth $300,519/s. Kraken supplies 41% of that and El Maja 38%, so about 80% of the zone's expected income comes from eggs that together make up 0.92 of every 100 spawns. The two whales add 15% from about 6 spawns in every 100.

That leads to a question worth asking before you walk in: does Steal an Egg Abyss Ocean actually pay better than Volcano? Volcano's average egg, on the same sum, is worth $429,225/s, more than this zone, because it holds two Eternals with a combined value of 0.400003 against El Maja's 0.08889. But strip out the Secret and Eternal eggs and the picture flips. Abyss Ocean's six ordinary eggs contribute $60,995/s per spawn and Volcano's five contribute $12,969/s, a ratio of 4.7 to 1. In plain terms, this zone has the better floor and Volcano the better odds of an Eternal, though El Maja out-earns either Volcano Eternal. For a player who takes what the nests offer, the ordinary eggs are what you will actually carry home, so the floor wins. The wider ranking is on /steal-an-egg-best-pets.

Searches for a 'whale egg' have two correct answers, and several wrong ones sit close by. There is no pet called just Whale in the site's 265-pet table. Two eggs in this zone fit the description, and the rest of the table holds near-duplicates from other places. The table below lists the ones most likely to cause a mistake, including Abyss Shark, which despite its name is filed under the Luminous Egg and not this zone; its wiki page is an empty template, so the module is the only source.

'Cosmic' causes a second confusion. Whale Shark and Beluga Whale are of Cosmic rarity; they do not come from the Cosmic zone, which is zone 9 and sits behind 700M Speed. Cosmic is a tier here and a place there. Void Angler misleads in the same way: its infobox places it under Rift, from the Riftbeasts Egg, as a Legendary at $30K/s with no grow time listed, so you will not find it in any Abyss Ocean nest, whatever its name suggests.

The guardian adds one more. The wiki's Biomes page names Moby as the guardian of Abyss Ocean, but Moby has no wiki page of its own and no entry in the pet table, so we can say nothing about its speed or behaviour. The Eggs page's general description applies: guardians sleep beside their nests, and you outrun them with movement speed.

From Volcano's gate at 700K you need another 1.8M Speed. On hatch rewards alone that is 75 Lava Geckos at +24k each, a total of 75 minutes of grow time, or 30 Lava Dragons at +60k and 150 hours. Short eggs win this race by a long way, and the treadmill adds Speed as well; see /steal-an-egg-speed for how the sources of Speed compare and /steal-an-egg-treadmills for machine prices.

Clearing the Steal an Egg Abyss Ocean gate only gets you in. The Biomes page says bigger eggs slow you down and need even more Speed than listed, and that enough Speed to enter does not necessarily mean enough to return safely with a large egg. It gives no figure for how much more, and neither does the Eggs page. That matters here because the size advice above pulls against it: a heavy Whale Shark is worth more and is harder to bring home. The only honest rule is to arrive with Speed to spare and to step up egg size as your margin grows.

Once you are in, Parrotfish becomes the zone's Speed egg, at 57,600 Speed per grow-minute against Beluga's 10,500. It earns almost nothing, but at +72k in 1m 15s it does more for your next gate than any egg above it. El Maja would need 87 hatches to cover the same 15.5M gap to Prehistoric, or 478.5 hours of grow. Our arithmetic, on infobox figures.

Kraken is the realistic target and El Maja the lucky one. The wiki's Drop Rates page lists them at 0.826453 and 0.08889, so a Kraken appears 9.3 times as often: about one egg in 121 against one in 1,125. Read as independent draws, 100 spawns give a 56% chance of at least one Kraken and an 8.5% chance of at least one El Maja. The method is set out on /steal-an-egg-drop-rates. The wiki does not say how many eggs a zone shows per reset, so these cannot be turned into hours.

One Kraken is worth 17.6 plain Belugas at $15M/s, for a grow time 11 times as long. El Maja then multiplies that by nearly nine again. If both start together, the Kraken hatches at 2h 15m and has made $177b by 5h 30m, when El Maja hatches and its $13b reward cuts that lead to $164b. At a $115M/s difference the rest is gone in 23m 46s, so El Maja passes Kraken 5h 53m 46s after planting. Either egg ties up a pen for hours, so read /steal-an-egg-eggs on pen defence first. If you own one of these, a mutation is worth checking in /steal-an-egg-mutation-calculator.

Abyss Ocean also matters for three things that are not eggs. First, the Biomes page says Dr. Scramble's mysterious cave lies hidden here, and the Dr. Scramble Event page (rev 1792) puts it on the left-hand side of the wall, where the Stolen Experiment Vault quest begins by talking to Experiment #013. The quest then sends you to Lost Part #1 in Volcano and Lost Part #2 behind a bush in Prehistoric, plus 3 Drone Parts, for the limited Scrambler bat. The page does not date the quest, so check /steal-an-egg-dr-scramble before planning around it.

Second, Rift Event rev 1703 lists this zone's eggs in two of its three banners. Riftborn and Riftbeasts both draw from Abyss Ocean, with Parrotfish and Swordfish in the Easy tier, Shark and Orca in Medium, and Whale Shark and Beluga Whale in Hard. Kraken and El Maja are not on those requirement lists. The page calls the sacrifice '3 random pets' and also says the pets are tied to the active banner, and it does not say what a Hard pet earns you over an Easy one, so giving up a $700K/s whale there is a decision the source cannot justify. Details are on /steal-an-egg-rift-event. None of the three banners on the Dr. Scramble's Laboratory page lists Abyss Ocean eggs.

Third, the wiki's Weapons page (rev 2729, written by one editor) lists an Abyss Ocean Bat at Power ×1.77 and Extra reach 11.3, about 9.9% more Power than the Volcano Bat's ×1.61. It does not say how a bat is unlocked within its zone. For the wider progression, /steal-an-egg-zones shows where Steal an Egg Abyss Ocean sits, with Prehistoric next at /steal-an-egg-prehistoric, and the breadcrumb leads back to the homepage.