HELP!! What Did I Do?!??!

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My hypothesis is that if you had a large amount of cyanobacteria for some time, it may have taken over much of the biological filtration function of your tank, meaning less growth of bacteria/other organisms which normally play this role on the live rock or in the sand bed. Scraping off the cyano would be removing your functioning biofilter. Just a hypothesis though.