I have a large female creamsicle molly that I would estimate at well over 3 years old. I have had her two years and bought her at a local pet shop when she was by far the largest molly in her tank. My guess is that she was much more than a year old at the time. What I am seeing now is discolored scales on her back in front of her dorsal fin. The color is a faded whitish tan color that seems almost like a thin layer of something like calcium deposits on her scales. At the back of her head she has a slight indent before the line of her back resumes. It almost makes her head look separate from her body the way you see an indent on a parrot fish only not that extreme. Are these somehow signs of aging or does she have a disease that I have never seen before? The symptoms have come on very slowly over a rather long time so I am more inclined to think it is just aging affecting her. She still feeds well, dropped fry just 3 days ago and acts almost as young as she ever did with vigorous swimming and all fins erect much of the time but I worry about her. I know it seems a bit crazy to worry that much about a $2 fish but I have grown attached to her over the years I have had her.
