The 75gal reef tank cycle has started!!!!!!!

I can't seem to find anything about this on the net. There isn't anyone who might know this. I just want to know so we can watch for her having there baby's. I know someone said that they always wait until dark to do it. Also we don't have any fish in the tank at the moment. Is there any way that some of them might live?
 
I think I read somewhere that they are attempting to to breed/raise sexy shrimp in captivity, but so far no success. I might have been dreaming this (with my dreams lately, anything is possible lol) and can't remember where I would have read it - online somewhere.
 
I have read things on raising them but I can't seem to find it again. You can do it but need another tank. We have 4 tanks now so we can't start another one yet for them but maybe if they keep mating down the road we might try it. I just can't remember what it said about how long before they pop. I would like to keep an eye on here at night around the time that they say it might happen.
 
Well I just overflowed the 30gal garbage can in our bathroom that we use to hold RO/DI water. I was letting it run to fill the can because we have been doing WC on our tanks for the last couple of days. I had a timer set but was doing something when it went off and forgot about it. We live in a 3 family house on the top floor. The water was running down threw a hole where a pipe use to be. I went down stairs to see if it was dripping from anywhere and he already had some pans under the ceiling fan in there kitchen. I don't think it was leaking for very long but god that sucks. We really have to get a stop float for that thing. I knew I would do it at some point. Well at least it wasn't that bad and we found it before it dumped a ton of water down there.

Anyway I just wanted to blow off some steam.
 
First of many overflow problems I am sure. No matter how much you try to avoid it, it always seems to happen. I must have had at least 6 overflows in 6 years. I think I have it all solved, but the next power outtage will no doubt teach me a new way I didn't think of.

Speaking of which, did you ever fix your small leak problem with your fuge?
 
Now not yet I was going to do it tomorrow but I have to work. I'm not really looking forward to that at all. I guess i can just put the sand in a bucket and turn of the feed to the fuge. I know I'm going to have to wait a day after I caulk it before I can set it back up so It's a bit involved. Maybe I'll get to it on Monday night.
 
Wood: here is some information that is found at Project DIBS http://www.projectdibs.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=80 can't get some of the photos to come up, but hopefully it will be of some use to you. Sounds as if they have ~500 young and they are very slow growing. Requires a lot of BBS as a food source.
 
Are the eggs fertilized? If they are anything like scarlet skunks and peppermints they will sometimes have an egg sac that isn't fertilized. You can tell it is fertilized on them because the eggs will change to a lime green color. Mine just become fish food when they release...and even the shrimp eat them.
 
Well we saw them in the act so I'm guessing yes. All I know is she is now twice the size of the male.
 
On the overflow topic - I overflow my trash can I use all the time. It overflowed today when I took an insanely long nap, but that's why it's in my basement/groundfloor in a laundry room so it can go right down a drain.
 
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