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Originally Posted by addict 
If it's foot is attached, you can clear the sand around it so that you have access and gently pull the foot/byssal threads off the glass bottom.
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never pull on a clam to detach it. you can rip the threads from the gland and cause an infection. just tip it to one side an cut the threads as far away from the clam as you can.
just to add, clams mantles are fully developed and full of zoox at a very early age(about a month) so the old saying that clams cant support them selves with out filter feeding untill 2 or 3" is not true. that was started a few years back when someone wrote an article FOR a phytoplankton Co. to sell phyto. heres a study where young clams were kept in micro filtered water, and never received any type of particulate and they did just fine on light alone.
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=000...2-N&size=LARGE