is there a relation between silicate and cyno?

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Just wondering. I did a treatment for cyno a week ago but as I was doing my big water change, I also needed to capture an evil, evil sally lightfoot crab. That of course had me moving rock all over the place.

In the end I ended up with nice clean sand. Today I have diatoms. That leads me to test for silicate. Well I find that I have 1 ppm in my tap water and it's getting through my RO unit which reads the same. I'm about to change membrane but that got me thinking...

Is there a relation to silicate and cyno?
 
silicates usually feed diatoms, cyano is typically more dependant on nitrate and phosphate.
 
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