Susan had kindly given me one of her baby dwarf crays (yes Susan I found it), and it has been doing great! It is molting and growing quite regularly. Big problem though. As it grows, my sword plants have shrunk. So much that the three i have each only have two leaves left and just a stump of a base. The cray just snips them off at the base and watches them float around. Grrrrrrrr!!! I know it is the cray cause last night I caught him in the act. I was so mad he almost became an appetizer before dinner!

To those with cray experience. Is there anything I can do to dissuade him from this activity? More frequent feedings (currently he is fed once a day),  should I ground him?  If there is nothing I can do he may have to go. I have had those plants rocking for 8 years now and I am not going to let that snot bag end it now!

Hey Corey!  Long time no "see".  Feed it more.  You don't have to feed it more often, just feed it more.  Mine like Hikari algae wafers and zuchini.  It's either hungry or craving veggies. 

I'm overrun with those crayfish now.  I have a 5 gallon tank that's at capacity.  Any shred of vegetation in that tank gets eaten.  I also have two larger tanks with three or so crayfish apiece, and their plants are untouched.  One of them even has sword plants. 

Cool! I will give that a shot. Do you only feed them veggie foods?

No, I feed them a variety of stuff.   Any sinking fish food is eagerly taken.  They love frozen bloodworms and mysis.  They also gobble up any fish that die. 

Hope you don't mind me jumping in here but I had a blue Cray fish once in a 55 gallon with 5 rummy nose tetras and two pair of breading angels. That little so and so killed 1 pair of angels and 3 of my tetras before I gave him away. Since then I've been afraid to add any Cray fish to any of my tanks again, although I think they are pretty cool.

Yeah, some of the larger crayfish are terrors.  I have a big red one that I wouldn't keep with anything I cared about.  These little guys are pretty laid back.  I've been keeping them with all kinds of fish, and I don't think they've bothered any of them.

The one Corey has is a cajun crayfish, but not a dwarf cajun crayfish.  I've seen the real dwarf cajun crayfish, and mine are way too big.  I've been pestering the folks on the NANFA forum with pictures and no one has been able to identify them, other than "some kind of Procambarus."  There are a lot of species to choose from, and it's hard to nail it down, especially from my crummy pictures. 

Until I learn otherwise, I'm dubbing them Procambarus lethargii, the fainting crayfish.  Three times now, I've found one on its side with legs sticking out, apparently dead, only to see it get up and walk off a few minutes later.  I also call them the "giant dwarf crayfish" because they look so much like the dwarf cajun crayfish, only bigger.  They breed like it's going out of style.