Three questions on raising the borates:

1. I've got a 23k IG gunnite pool, so it's a fairly significant amount of borax and acid. Should I stage it over 4-5 sessions, or just stick with the half and half approach? I'm a little nervous about that much acid in such a short time.

2. Should I completely get any algae under control before introducing the borax? Or will its presence actually help.

3. I think I read in another thread that raising the borates will also help keep an ever rising ph in check. Is that accurate?

Thanks!

Jim