Torch losing all its heads but healthy?

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My torch fell over last night and I just got to it now. It’s been healthy and all my other torches are doing great. Everything is doing great, but when I just picked my torch back up. 3 of its 4 heads just fell out. Like perfectly just got plucked out of the base. Are those other heads just going to die now? What does this mean and what happened? Literally perfectly healthy and expanded yesterday and nothing else showing any issues
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Is anything stressing your coral out, what is your fish / invert / coral selection? Tank params? Even pests, because the torch doesn't seem to have any diseases as far as I can tell. (Pests like flatworms, coral-eating nudibranchs, etc.).
 

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Try keeping those bailed heads in a cup in a low flow area. I kept a torch head alive for months before I lost it on accident
 
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Is anything stressing your coral out, what is your fish / invert / coral selection? Tank params?
Doubt it

2x clowns, royal gramma, and a small scoops tang, mixed CuC.

Coral mixed reef, lots of lps and sps. Zoas and mushrooms. 1 nem but he is on other side of tank and locked in place.

Tank is 3.5 years old and params are stable using a Red Sea dosing pump.

As of last weekend they are using Hannah testers:
Alk: 7.2
Call:430
Mag:1370
Temp 78 (INKBIRD)
Salinity 1.026
Ph: unknown
 

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Firstly, I'd check pH if I were you, and second, there are some pests that could eat torch corals or harass torch corals.
 

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