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1. Shallow Crabcore gains "intelligence" aka behaviors that make it preferable for the DomeDwellers around to find optimal for animal husbandry (doesnt rip random stuff apart for fun anymore : ( )
2.Spikey Crabgore Ultra violence: Will seek out other non Spikey Crabgore beings to "clear out" grazing space or reduce predation.
3. Speciate Spikey Crabgore (After SS action) & send to Eke Shallows
A. Reversal of Deep Water survival mechanisms to begin adaption to shallow water areas.
B. Pincers become lopsided, one is bigger and for mauling, the other is smaller and for feeding.
SS: Spikey Crabgore becomes larger.

I'll swap to to clarify that I am using the Uchian Handfish Whalegore.

 I'll swap 3 to
"Uch Shallows Flying Kilgore: Develops Sense of smell to accrue Algae better & avoid predation.

3: Speciate the above
  A: Adapt to shallow sea and send to Eke Shallows
  B: Adapt locomotive ability to for short bursts of movement / leaping for more effective predation or escape.

I feel like such a fool for sending my beast to Uch instead of Bir.

Blood_Librarian
1: Door ram body plan for Knifehead Whalegore
2: Three pairs of fine manipulators for Knifehead Whalegore(?)(is this really for your whales? I wanna know.)
3: Speciate the above(?)
  A: Bigger brain and send to Uch Shallows
  B: Carriercovy toxin resistance
SS: Support action 1

Yeah, but I don't picture Action number 2 as fine manipulators so much as long spear-heads made like a elephant or narwhals tusk, attached to limbs designed to swing around for a lot of momentum to kill when the hammer "head" isn't applicable.
If this isn't possible, we could simplify it into a elbow joint & shoulder joint analogue and just rely on two sets of muscles to do the swing work for a bio-mechanically simpler design.
I also don't think they are not really qualify as whale-like until they're at least 2 or 2.5 meters long.

I can barely comprehend the work that goes into making the save operations happen, but that seems like a serious amount of work, congratulations on getting it done. I'm also a pretty big fan of all the new details you put on the original post since the last time I checked it out a year ago, it feels like a world of difference.

I cant stop winning.

How thick is the atmosphere of this place, and how high is the gravity? This determines if it is possible for a meters long fish to take flight.
1A.Knifehead Whalegore: If  the conditions for flight is significantly easier then Earth baseline (EG, gravity of 0.5 G w/ 1.2+ Atmospheres or 0.8 G w/ 2+ Atmospheres), then I am going all in on giving the Whalegore significantly boosted flight capabilities to more effectively predate its primary prey, in the form of a aerodynamically effective active ornithopter-like flight capability.
1B. If the above is not true, then I will simply go for brain expansion of the brain for Cooperative cleaning behavior & social pack structure.
2. Knife Head Whalegore is a obligate carnivore with calcium based teeth & capability to digest meat more effectively.
3. Hollow Krillgore becomes crab with a radical body change to form a hexapod hydraulic based movement system. It should also change its name to Krabgore or whatever variation of you feel appropriate.
SS.Hollow Krillgore Becomes Crab with its wing fins becoming 2 limbs capable of pinching / manipulating the environment to gather food,  and can no longer feed itself without the claws specialized for the consumption of deep snow in the environment, hopefully more effectively then its competitors. Essentially evolving out of "Its mouth is covered in hairs to catch algea, which it then devours via suction from a set of internal gills" because we eat snow in this area.