diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 3afffeee..b73eb098 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ dev =
     hypothesis>=6.61.0
     requests>=2.22.0
     wget>=3.2
-    ome-zarr>=0.9.0
+    ome-zarr>=0.6.1
 doc =
     matplotlib
     numpydoc>=1.1.0
diff --git a/tests/ngff/test_ngff.py b/tests/ngff/test_ngff.py
index a781bc5b..d1aae0ca 100644
--- a/tests/ngff/test_ngff.py
+++ b/tests/ngff/test_ngff.py
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ def test_write_ome_zarr(channels_and_random_5d, arr_name):
         # round-trip test with the offical reader implementation
         ext_reader = Reader(parse_url(dataset.zgroup.store.path))
         node = list(ext_reader())[0]
-        assert node.metadata["channel_names"] == channel_names
+        assert node.metadata["name"] == channel_names
         assert node.specs[0].datasets == [arr_name]
         assert node.data[0].shape == random_5d.shape
         assert node.data[0].dtype == random_5d.dtype