Cheapest place for quality fluorescent tubes

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Cheapest place for quality fluorescent tubes

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Hi guys!
I'm visiting the US in January and am thinking about ordering some tubes for my marine tank and having them sent to my mom`s. I`m hoping to save some $$ over Canadian pricing! Where's the cheapest place to order good quality lights? I haven`t decided exactly what I want, but I`d like to price out Geismann, ATI, KZ, brands like that...
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I dont know about brands but home depot/lowes places like that are usually pretty cheap
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We have Geismann FW lights. Bought them online in Canada and they were actually pretty cheap. I think we got them from JL.
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J&L only shows URI brand? Most of the ones I'm looking at seem to go for $30-35 for the 54w, in Canada...and I'll need 6....and I can get Coralife for $10, which is making it tough for me to justify $200. So I want to source out a reeeeeeally good deal :-)
Flutter wrote:We have Geismann FW lights. Bought them online in Canada and they were actually pretty cheap. I think we got them from JL.
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