I read with interest your advice about impaling mushrooms with toothpicks to keep them in place while they are attaching?
I have a lovely mushroom rock that I've been trying to train onto an even larger rock, but the shrooms weren't moving fast enough to suit me. "I'll just peel 'em off and toothpick them individually where I want them" I thought.
I got the peeling figured out- I used a wooden bonsai tool that is gentle to tissue yet firm enough to work.
Stabbed 'em into place.
Three seconds later I see a peppermint shrimp sneaking off with one of my mushrooms- and the toothpick!!
I snagged it out of his grasp and told him "NO".
Lather rinse and repeat- ad nauseum.
Peppermint shrimp do not take very well to classical conditioning techniques. I'm a pretty good animal trainer and they are not buying it.
Fast forward to the next morning.
Of course I have NO mushrooms left at all, and an overflow full of toothpicks.
Happy?
I have a lovely mushroom rock that I've been trying to train onto an even larger rock, but the shrooms weren't moving fast enough to suit me. "I'll just peel 'em off and toothpick them individually where I want them" I thought.
I got the peeling figured out- I used a wooden bonsai tool that is gentle to tissue yet firm enough to work.
Stabbed 'em into place.
Three seconds later I see a peppermint shrimp sneaking off with one of my mushrooms- and the toothpick!!
I snagged it out of his grasp and told him "NO".
Lather rinse and repeat- ad nauseum.
Peppermint shrimp do not take very well to classical conditioning techniques. I'm a pretty good animal trainer and they are not buying it.
Fast forward to the next morning.
Of course I have NO mushrooms left at all, and an overflow full of toothpicks.
Happy?
