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Mixing medias is a common practice but it requires a strong understanding of each medias capabilities and considerable testing to be done successfully. For the most part, we do not recommend mixing medias unless they are within certain specs and the customers are usually given the 2 minute explanation of the mixed medias capabilities or lack thereof. KDF doe not mix with any traditional medias well. It falls to the bottom, clumps up into a ball, and is basically unusable. When KDF55 is done on its own and has adequate backwash rates, it is an exceptional media that lasts for many years.
I dont want to give away too many secrets as we have spent too many years testing and gaining an understanding of media blends for larger applications, but simply put, mixed bed systems are mainly just for marketing purposes and sometimes lose a lot of their function due to poor blends.
If you want to do KDF, the media guard chamber systems is an exceptional way to get this media to work in an economical way for regular residential applications.
