I happen to live in New England, too!
I, too, realized that our local Petcos recently stocked many small bettas.
When I bought mine from there several weeks ago, there weren't those small ones.
Maybe it's just their stock cycle.
I don't have a Petco where I live, but I did check out the website. I'm looking for tanks, and they actually have a tab for Betta's under tank.. I'm still looking to double check, but apparently for Betta fish, they find that only 2-3 2.5 gallon tanks are appropriate, and anything smaller, especially 0.5 gallon bowls, are riddled in abundance. I think the site should also get complaints as well >.>
You are better off with a heater that is adjustable, and maybe a larger QT.
I bought a 50Watt adjustable heater at another pet store. I would have preferred a 25watt adjustable. If I can't get it to go low enough in my current QT, I'm upgrading to a 2.5 gallon QT w/cover.
I'm never trusting another non-adjustable heater ever again (and just barely trust the heaters I have now)!
Another point: never set up a small tank and heater (even if it's one you've used before) at bedtime. You'll want to be able to eyeball the temp every hour or so for about half a day, to be sure it's ok...
I did get an adjustable Top Fin 50watt heater for the QT tank and it tested very successfully.
It's always sad to lose a fish... but when it dies a preventable death, that's the saddest of all.
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