diff --git a/nanshe/io/xtiff.py b/nanshe/io/xtiff.py
index 72eda7cb..2bc7d6fe 100644
--- a/nanshe/io/xtiff.py
+++ b/nanshe/io/xtiff.py
@@ -37,12 +37,7 @@
 from nanshe.util import iters, xglob, prof, xnumpy
 from nanshe.io import hdf5
 
-try:
-    import tifffile
-except ImportError:
-    # scikit-image is bundled with tifffile so use it.
-    from skimage.external import tifffile
-
+import tifffile
 
 from past.builtins import unicode
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index f561241e..9abf58be 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ def run_tests(self):
         "xnumpy",
         "scikit-image",
         "scikit-learn",
+        "tifffile",
         "yail",
         "mahotas",
         "vigra",