I'm done with Bettas, probably forever.

There's genuinely no point to even rolling the dice on the gamble of breeding both at retail stores and online stores. No matter how much I try to vet, or pick and choose, or spend $70 on expensive overseas live shipping etc: I still just get a fish who develops a horrifying tumor in less than 6 months or one who ends up with dropsy and decides to completely stop eating. Yeah there's bad breeding in other pet trades, but getting ticking time bombs of DOA fish has completely lost its appeal. A Betta is often the star of the tank, something you waste time and effort naming and getting emotionally attached to: that just makes their random inevitable death that much more painful. I'm going to turn my heater down, get a school of name-less Tetras that I don't give a shit about, and stop caring.