How to Move a Clam?

[animalkingdom]

Hi yall,
I've got a clam that I got as a free shipping add on to an online order about a year and a half ago. I placed him on a rock in a crevice where he seemed happy for a while. There was a wall hammer that was kind of close by but I had had it for a few years and it never expanded too far. Then the clam and hammer began to grow and the hammer started stinging the clam. You could tell the clam wasn't happy and it shifted itself to avoid getting stung. It even grew its mantle faster on the side it was getting stung from. As it got more and more ****ed off it started slowly inching down the rockwork out of the crevice over a period of a few months. I can often see little strings coming out of the backside and sometimes I can see its fleshy foot anchoring it to the rocks. The problem is it has nowhere left to inch to and I want to move it so it stops getting stung. Any good way to move just the clam and not the rock its anchored too?
Here are some pics:


The clam used to be up by the higher colony of tubbs blues in the crevice before inching down.

 

[moliken]

many methods. easiest but scariest is tilt the clam gently as far as it'll go to one side, have a very sharp blade, like a single edge. cut foot as close to the rock as possible. should feel like butter, no resistance.the way your clam is boxed in there, id say that's yr best shot.

 

[neuro]

you're not cutting the foot, just the byssal filaments.

 

[animalkingdom]

will he make new ones??

 

[moliken]

done right, yes. next time get him to attach to a small rock and put hm where you want

 

[neuro]

will he make new ones??

Yup!