Anemones are unhappy

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I am unsure of what could have caused this, but my 2 anemones that were very happy seemed to have had something change and are now moving all over the place. They used to be at the top of my tank and were always happy there are opening fully, but now one of them moved down and the other released its foot. I put it into an acclimation box and after 3ish days I released back into the tank to release its foot the following night. It moved to the very bottom of the tank and has stayed there and was opening fully but has slowly decreased its opening size and now hasn’t really been opening at all all day. The other one which I presumed was getting ready to split moved back up to the top of the tank but then moved back down and back up and then back down, to move into the large cave I made with the rockscape, to move back up but not all the way and also hasn’t been opening a lot really at all. All my other corals look happy, except for my toadstool who is shedding and some zoas the other anemone at the bottom was covering once it got there. What could cause this. There is no melting as far as I can see, and in the picture of the anemone at the bottom, the white thing is some dried super glue from a coral I had there a long time ago but died.
Nitrates: ~5 ppm
Phosphate: ~.02
Alk:~8.6, but don’t think that that would cause this
Ammonia and nitrite are 0
No copper

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