diff --git a/recipes/scnic/meta.yaml b/recipes/scnic/meta.yaml
index bccae944ffa3e..efd95b37cefe3 100644
--- a/recipes/scnic/meta.yaml
+++ b/recipes/scnic/meta.yaml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{% set version = "0.5.3" %}
+{% set version = "0.6.0" %}
 
 package:
   name: scnic
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ package:
 
 source:
   url: https://github.com/shafferm/SCNIC/archive/{{ version }}.tar.gz
-  sha256: a2857f96d9887c74c8380d501c1db1d1620c19daf6a0341da38bad4a9d44c51d
+  sha256: 476868bb0e1703ee4bd29e712e94178f0027b4413fd9428dcf0922baffd3d677
 
 build:
   number: 0
@@ -27,15 +27,25 @@ requirements:
     - biom-format
     - networkx >2
     - scikit-bio
-    - fastspar
-    - parallel
+    - fastspar 0.0.6
+    # fastspar does not pin armadillo correctly, doing
+    # that here until fastspar 0.0.7 fixes it
+    - armadillo 8.*
+    - tqdm
+    - matplotlib
+    - seaborn
 
 test:
   command:
     - SCNIC_analysis.py --help
+    - fastspar --help  # verify fastspar working correctly
 
 about:
   home: https://github.com/shafferm/SCNIC
   license: BSD
   license_file: LICENSE
   summary: "SCNIC: Sparse Cooccurence Network Investigation for Compositional data"
+
+extra:
+  recipe-maintainers:
+     - shafferm