diff --git a/docs/developer-guide.md b/docs/developer-guide.md
index dc44aa24732e43d7170f956e5014dbe7e237847c..8156fe0e38f85985661f008f89a1aa5720004a06 100644
--- a/docs/developer-guide.md
+++ b/docs/developer-guide.md
@@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ use ```deactivate``` to deactivate the environment.
 - six, [future](http://python-future.org/index.html)
 - nose, sphinx, blosc, pbr, psutil, coverage, setuptools_scm
 - [parimeko](http://www.paramiko.org/)
+- [sshtunnel](https://github.com/pahaz/sshtunnel)
 - [pandoc](http://pandoc.org/) , [pypandoc](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pypandoc):
 convert markdown formatted readme file to rst for PyPi compatibility. See also
 issue #22. ```pandoc``` is available in Anaconda. When installing
@@ -156,7 +157,7 @@ Install the necessary Python dependencies using the conda package manager:
 ```
 >> conda install setuptools_scm future h5py pytables pytest pytest-cov nose sphinx blosc pbr paramiko
 >> conda install scipy pandas matplotlib cython xlrd coverage xlwt openpyxl psutil pandoc
->> conda install -c conda-forge pyscaffold pypandoc --no-deps
+>> conda install -c conda-forge pyscaffold pypandoc sshtunnel --no-deps
 >> conda install --channel https://conda.anaconda.org/pbrod twine --no-deps
 ```
 
diff --git a/docs/install.md b/docs/install.md
index 8d8b97db7521f7fd4878391819eb1d6540758580..b3bbac3f2fe20562c28692c9b75bf7c4e0bb5f66 100644
--- a/docs/install.md
+++ b/docs/install.md
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Install the necessary Python dependencies using the ```conda``` package manager:
 ```
 >> conda install setuptools_scm future h5py pytables pytest pytest-cov nose sphinx blosc pbr paramiko
 >> conda install scipy pandas matplotlib cython xlrd coverage xlwt openpyxl psutil
->> conda install -c conda-forge pyscaffold --no-deps
+>> conda install -c conda-forge pyscaffold sshtunnel --no-deps
 ```
 
 Now you can install ```wetb``` with ```pip``` (there is no ```conda``` package
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 7682038fce17861ca1ee658e5c93583fc383f464..5ab191d8a44d73363db0c44d95075668eee1f2fb 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -16,4 +16,5 @@ psutil
 pbr
 PyScaffold
 pytest-cov
+sshtunnel