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If you have 500-1,000 gallons per minute flowing through your pond, maybe it will, maybe it won't? I am curious how you keep that much water at bay while you construct the pond? I have a spring fed quarry with nowhere near that flow and it was abandoned because they couldn't keep up with the water.
Most new ponds "cycle" for 3 weeks to a few months. During this time, all the dead fish, fish food and any other organic matter decay and produce ammonia. Depending upon numerous variables, this will be a ratio of ionized and un-ionized. Un-inonized (NH3) is toxic to fish.
Eventually, nitrosomonas form and feed on the ammonia and oxygen which will decrease DO levels and increase nitrite levels. Nitrites are also dangerous to fish but eventually nitrobacter will form in equilibrium and convert nitrites to nitrAtes.
To be safe, you shouldn't stock your pond with anything more than bait fish until water samples show the pond has cycled through this process.
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