Best place for 250w MH bulbs?

[naturebatslast]

Best place to purchase 250w MH bulbs?

Time to replace 2, 250w SE's, and doing the obligatory price comparasions on the web I was curious what others have seen and/or bought recently.
I usually run XM 10k's, mainly because it's the cheapest bulb, with decent color and it's a PAR/PPFD monster. Haven't seen or had any issues ever with XM's, although someone did show me a melted 400w bulb.
Possibly thinking about changing. Marine depot has 250 XM's for $65 and Ushio's for $80. They even had South Pacific Sunlight (SPS) for $92, but I haven't seen any data on the bulbs, outside of a review of a 175w by Sanjay.
Thanks

 

[wrassefan]

http://www.reefexotics.com/reeflux.htm

been using the 12k bulbs recently...can't beat the price with free shipping on 2 bulbs

 

[Liam]

the 250 watt sps bulbs are on sanjays site.
they have great par and are way whiter than xm's.
I would go as far as saying that they are the whitest i have used.i ran one on a lumatek ballast,very happy with it.

$92,sounds like they went up.They were $70 not long ago at MD

 

[naturebatslast]

Just found the SPS bulbs on Sanjay's site, decent PAR and have that big blue spike. Hmmm.