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Originally Posted by bertoni
Are you saying that the cyanobacteria fix nitrogen and the dinoflagellates feed on the cyanobacteria?
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They don't have to feed on the cyano itself. It could be symbiotic the way corals feed on the carbohydrate generated by zooxanthelle (another dino).
Cyano fixes the Nitrogen gas into biologically available Nitrogen, and the dinos feed on that.