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As for the solution- the cyclops is too weak for that. Even FBs need to be pretty hardcore to manage armed 100 goblins.

Then what else should I do with the cyclops and FBs?

I've tried shooting them from the top of the pit and there are crossbow goblins in the pit. They don't seem to shoot back though. My theory is that due to gravity they can't shoot up that high but because I'm shooting down it means that I can shoot them but they can't shoot me.

When ever I get a siege the goblins seem to bring large numbers so my solution is just to drop them in my pit. There is approximately 100 goblins, 50 cave crocodiles and 25 trolls. So I have more creatures in my pit than I have dwarves in my fortress. But the question is how do I deal with them? I can't flood the place because the crocs would survive and I can't cause a cave in above them because there's not enough rock to drop on them.
My plan was to filter out the building destroyers and then catch the rest in cages.
Or I could just get my archers to shoot them from high above.
What do you guys think?

The wiki doesn't directly specify how it's done but you may be able to try making large amounts of beer and have it taken to a stockpile in a burrow. Then you build a kitchen in the burrow and assign a dwarf to it. Hopefully they should only use the beer that's available to them to make the boozecooking.

Forgotten beast's secretions vary quite a lot. In my personal experience I've found that they have range. I think they can be blobs, liquids or gasses, It varies though.
However I think you should take this opportunity to put it in the bottom of a pit and use it as a way to dispose of goblins and pesky nobles your most useful dwarves.

I've got a pit full of about 50 goblins so I will check to see what their combination of armour is.

EDIT: I sampled 10 goblins in the pit and found that they all wore the same thing: mail shirt & metal helm

You do realize that directly above in the same link as what you gave, it says that uranium oxide was being used as a glass coloring as far back as 79 ce right?...

No I hadn't noticed that. In that case I suppose the use of uranium oxide seems plausible.

Loo(k) at it and make sure that it's not forbidden. If that's not the problem then maybe you should try dumping it and then claiming it again after it's been dumped.