Author

Ynes Carrillo

Ynes grew up in the Andes mountains of Venezuela, where she spent decades as a teacher and cultivated a lush garden of native and non-native plants around her backyard fish pond. She holds a Master's degree in Education and now lives in Texas, where she keeps a low-tech planted aquarium and tends a vegetable garden. Though retired from the classroom, Ynes channels her lifelong passion for teaching into helping others succeed with fishkeeping and aquatic plants.