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    Posted: June 22 2008 at 5:53pm
I am finally setting up my tank and I have a bunch of ball valves, bends etc.. that are threaded. My question is should I use teflon to seal the pieces together, glue or will they be fine without either of them? I am worried about leakage. I also am using a little flex hose.
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Teflon tape.
 
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Teflon paste is great as well.
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o just use both i cant hurt unless you do it wrong them you have to start  from scratch
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IMO Don use both
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