I am planning to use Dalton's Aquatic Mix on the bottom and having some sand and stones (about 2-4cm in diameter) on top of it.

Will Glosso be able to grow in conditions like those?

mine is, so far so good

I am planning to use Dalton's Aquatic Mix on the bottom and having some sand and stones (about 2-4cm in diameter) on top of it.

Will Glosso be able to grow in conditions like those?

Yip

It will grow but the bigger the stones the harder it is to plant---very small plant with very small roots.

It will grow but the bigger the stones the harder it is to plant---very small plant with very small roots.

Fair enough. I'll go easy on the pebbles then.

i found glosso hard enuff to plant even in sand, i gave up in the gravel!

i found glosso hard enuff to plant even in sand, i gave up in the gravel!

Thanks for the warning, but I have a plan in mind.

I'm gonna plant the glosso before putting the pebbles in. I will of course space the pebbles out a bit so the glosso has spaces to grow. I'll go hard out on the pebbles at places I don't want it to grow.

It will grow over gravel.

its more getting it root in the first place. once established u shouldnt have any problems

its more getting it root in the first place. once established u shouldnt have any problems

exactly. or buy a square 'mat' to start with that is stuck together.. it will spread out by itself... that's the best way... tho if you have clowns they'll bring some up for your great joy

By clown you mean clown loaches? I don't think the ones I'm getting will come in a mat, someone is giving me some. Will planting them together work better at propagating them or should I just spread them out?

if its from an established plant it will probably be in a mat like clump

Before I planted my glosso, I read a few websites and they recommended splitting the glosso up into individual plantlets and planting them. I did this and it worked great. Each planted started up a runner and now they are spreading everywhere. Might take longer if you start with a matt, but if its the only way to hold it down, then you might have to?

I planted mine in sand, was time consuming and tedious due to the number of plantlets and separating them out, but they stayed down perfectly

Thanks for that. I plan to have about a couple of inches of Dalton's then a mixture of builders stand and pebbles on top of it. I'm doing at total teardown of my old tank so the tank would have just a little water in it while I'm doing the planting.

Let us know how it goes 8)

Pics from mine are here: http://www.fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/setting-up-my-nano-planted-vt31547.html