Torch Closed... new clownfish the culprit?

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About a week or so ago I got snowflake and ocellaris clownfish which I acquired as a pair. I put them in the tank hoping they would make there way to one of my bubble tip anemone but they went strait for my healthy torch where they stayed quite happily ever since, which I know they can hurt one another but decided to keep a close eye. They stayed a little too happily as it would seem. They frolicked for several days and all tentacles on torch seemed to be normal but a few days ago the tentacles receded about half way and one a bit more. Long story short one of the heads just completely receded and I have put the clownfish into a breeder tank with the idea of taking them back to LFS to let the torch try and recover.

Please see photos below for day one with clowns and then earlier today.

Does anyone have any advice on bringing these guys back to life?

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I would just leave the torch alone. Usually they can close for a few days if they've just been transferred out of a different tank, dipped, or even fragged. I wouldn't worry about it. Just leave it alone, no point in trying to stress it out even more.
 
This morning it looked like this, seems to be perturbing in a way I have never seen. Do u think something in tank is picking at it in it's weak state? emerald crabs? Peppermint Shrimp?

In my noob mind this is a theory, the clownfish caused the stress that weakened the torch, last night I took the clowns into a breeder tank, all the cleanup crew in the tank could get to torch without the clownfish being there?

Take a look at the photo. Levels are as they are normally, this torch has been fine in my tank ever since I put it in until the clownfish were added.

911!!!

Levels are as they always are.
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