What killed both my clowns?

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Came home to both my clowns ripped to pieces on the bottom of my tank and I have no idea why. They have been in the tank for about 3months with no aggression shown to them by any other fish and the only inverts I have are a few red leg hermits and three emerald crabs.

The tank gets fed decent but I have cut back to one small feeding the last three days to help with some algae issues.

Fish list is:
Small hippo tang
Three chromis
Flame hawk fish
Algae blenny
Two firefish
Six line wrasse
Bicolor dottyback

All fish are juveniles and the clowns were pretty small.

The only recent change has been the addition of the wav powerheads and I am runny them really high almost all day with a Tom of flow throughout the tank.

Is it possible that they got sucked in at night? I find it hard to believe since they both died. One clown was so chewed up there was practically nothing left of him and I couldn't even get him out of the tank.

Here's the other one.
 
Unfortunately it does look and sound like they wandered into the power heads while asleep.
 
It's very hard to say what and who done it. But once I witness my hippo chase one of my clownfish. Than killed her by biting her.
 
Im sorry :(
I know my clown likes to sleep on powerheads/return pumps so it could be that :(
 

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