Rlarry45's Comments

Getting the Purple variant of this crab is a right pain. If you can find it a primary pet, well done as it's only a 4% chance, just reroll the fight if it spawns with "Explode".

If you find it as a secondary this is much more painful. 6 times I got the purple variant and each time it had explode. Restarting the fight changes the colour so I was there for a long long time before getting the safe combo. Best of luck!

Don't waste your time killing every Cave Crab in the area, it will not influence spawns of the Paleshell.

The Marina only seems to allow one battle pet spawn at a time, and the respawn time is about 2 minutes, Find the battle pet, if its a Cave Crab then kill it and wait for the respawn. Rarely the Paleshell will appear.

I found my one swimming in the Marina just along the coast edge after killing cave crabs for about 15 minutes. Best of luck!

Echoing Wain here as I've confirmed this. Don't waste your time killing every Cave Crab in the area, it will not influence spawns.

The Marina only seems to allow one battle pet spawn at a time, and the respawn time is about 2 minutes, Find the battle pet, if its not the colour you want then kill it and wait for the next one. As Wain said sometimes a critter version will despawn and be replaced by a battle pet version, although it's classed as a new spawn and will re-roll the colour.

Found my one as a frontline pet. Basically followed a route going along the spawnpoints in Hallowfall. Found tons of them all as just critters, but eventually found a battle-able one. S/S was grey but now blue.

If you're collecting all three skins, best advice is to ensure you keep one of the lambs in your battle party to compare against. The skin chances aren't particularly rare compared to other pets.

Appears in two colour variants, Tan and bright Yellow. Tan appears 90% of the time, Yellow is a 10% chance. As the pet can rarely be a secondary, best advice is the classic get the rarity you want to be a secondary, then keep restarting the battle until it appears in Yellow.

This appears to be the Deepridger of The Ringing Deeps (if you're a colour variant collector...then you know).

So far I've only see the standard colour spawn, and Skittish Sniffler appears to spawn somewhat rarely, possibly sharing spawns with other critters.

EDIT: Caught the pale one in Azj-Kahet at Mmarl Village, it looks very similar at first glance to the orange variant, check portraits!

Drops from Vraken the Hunter on the Forbidden Reach, roughly 4% dropchance. He seems to have a timer of roughly an hour.

Scruffles is a HUGE battle pet!

A very difficult hunt to collect the alternate skin, akin to shiny hunting pokemon in the old gen games.

Deepridger is a rare spawn of the Slabwings spawning in the South of Zaralek cavern. If you just want the basic pet, clear every Slabwing you see, on average two wipes spawns 1 Ridger. If you want the alternate skin, be prepared for many hours of slaying Slabwings, and be very careful as the alternate skin looks like a Slabwing at a distance. Matches the Catalogued Shalewing Mount!

This one was a pain to collect. The Zskera vaults have 3 possible pets to collect:

Each of these has around a 1% chance to drop from any non-primordial cache in the vaults (i.e. everything else openable has a chance of having the pets).

I collected 5 of both Bunbo and Berylmane before Brightfeather dropped from a Burning Cache. Happy to not have to go through those again!