New BTA dying? Banded shrimp killing it?

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I just added a bubble tip anemone to my tank yesterday evening. It was sticking its foot into the rock and starting to puff up yesterday went I went to bed. By this morning it had moved to the back of the rock and was barely visible, still looking partially deflated. When I got him from work tonight I caught my coral banded shrimp picking it and what I’d assume are guts coming out of it. It’s still stuck in the rock and i can’t move it. I caught the shrimp and tossed him in another tank. What should I do next?
Sorry for the bad photo, the guts looked white , not green. This was right before I got the shrimp out too, so you can see his antennas

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The picture is a little unclear - I would say the banded shrimp is eating dead tissue as compared to actively killing it.
I can’t hardly get a photo, it’s around the back of the rock. The shrimp has killed a very small damsel fish a couple months ago.
 

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