diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index f7ca484..28ca4c6 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -11,13 +11,13 @@ License: GPL-3
 LazyData: TRUE
 Depends:
     R (>= 2.10),
-    nat.flybrains
+    nat.flybrains,
+    nat.nblast
 Imports:
     nat,
     rgl,
     nat.templatebrains,
     catmaid,
-    nat.nblast,
     nabor,
     igraph,
     Morpho,
diff --git a/R/nblast_fafb.R b/R/nblast_fafb.R
index ebbe3c3..9255959 100644
--- a/R/nblast_fafb.R
+++ b/R/nblast_fafb.R
@@ -38,10 +38,7 @@ fetchdp<-function(skids, mirror=TRUE, conn=NULL, ...) {
 #'
 #' @examples
 #' \dontrun{
-#' # load dps object (see details)
-#'
-#' # load https://github.com/jefferislab/nat.flybrains
-#' library(nat.flybrains)
+#' # first load dps object (see details)
 #'
 #' # nblast neuron 27884
 #' PN27884f=nblast_fafb(27884, mirror = FALSE)
@@ -50,7 +47,13 @@ fetchdp<-function(skids, mirror=TRUE, conn=NULL, ...) {
 #' # plot results, just top hit
 #' plot3d(PN27884f, hits=1)
 #' }
-nblast_fafb <- function(skids, db=dps, conn=NULL, mirror=TRUE, normalised=TRUE, .parallel=T, ...) {
+nblast_fafb <- function(skids, db=NULL, conn=NULL, mirror=TRUE, normalised=TRUE, .parallel=T, ...) {
+  if(is.null(db)){
+    if(exists('dps')) db=get('dps') else{
+      stop("You must have the dps object containing flycircuit neurons loaded!\n",
+           "See details of nblast_fafb documentation!")
+    }
+  }
   n=fetchn(skids=skids, mirror=mirror, conn=conn)
   if(length(n)>1) n=elmr::stitch_neurons(n)
   else n=n[[1]]
diff --git a/man/nblast_fafb.Rd b/man/nblast_fafb.Rd
index 897c41a..0e51eb3 100644
--- a/man/nblast_fafb.Rd
+++ b/man/nblast_fafb.Rd
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 \alias{nblast_fafb}
 \title{NBLAST EM tracing against flycircuit neurons}
 \usage{
-nblast_fafb(skids, db = dps, conn = NULL, mirror = TRUE,
+nblast_fafb(skids, db = NULL, conn = NULL, mirror = TRUE,
   normalised = TRUE, .parallel = T, ...)
 }
 \arguments{
@@ -40,10 +40,7 @@ Still depends on an object called \code{dps} containing registered
 }
 \examples{
 \dontrun{
-# load dps object (see details)
-
-# load https://github.com/jefferislab/nat.flybrains
-library(nat.flybrains)
+# first load dps object (see details)
 
 # nblast neuron 27884
 PN27884f=nblast_fafb(27884, mirror = FALSE)