You need to handle magic mushroom spores with care to avoid contamination and spoiled liquid culture/agar plates. Ideally, you should work with spores in a clean environment using a still air box (SAB) or flow hood to minimise the threat of airborne microorganisms landing on your plates and in your jars. Mycologists typically use scalpels to transfer agar and inoculation loops as the tool of choice when moving spores onto a Petri dish.