diff --git a/dependency-reduced-pom.xml b/dependency-reduced-pom.xml
index 6ccd5fe3..5f8e99dc 100644
--- a/dependency-reduced-pom.xml
+++ b/dependency-reduced-pom.xml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
   <groupId>org.embl.mobie</groupId>
   <artifactId>mobie-io</artifactId>
   <name>MoBIE IO</name>
-  <version>2.2.1</version>
+  <version>2.2.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
   <description>Readers and writers for image data in MoBIE projects</description>
   <url>https://github.com/mobie/mobie-io</url>
   <issueManagement>
@@ -83,7 +83,6 @@
   <scm>
     <connection>scm:git:https://github.com/mobie/mobie-io</connection>
     <developerConnection>scm:git:git@github.com:mobie/mobie-io</developerConnection>
-    <tag>mobie-io-2.2.1</tag>
     <url>https://github.com/mobie/mobie-io</url>
   </scm>
   <organization>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index ca1f515f..1a1ef8a2 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.scijava</groupId>
         <artifactId>pom-scijava</artifactId>
-        <version>37.0.0</version>
+        <version>36.0.0</version>
     </parent>
 
     <groupId>org.embl.mobie</groupId>
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/embl/mobie/io/ImageDataFormat.java b/src/main/java/org/embl/mobie/io/ImageDataFormat.java
index 6d4472c2..c8d9425c 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/embl/mobie/io/ImageDataFormat.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/embl/mobie/io/ImageDataFormat.java
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ public static ImageDataFormat fromPath(String path)
             return ImageDataFormat.OmeZarr;
         else if (lowerCase.endsWith( ".xml" ))
             return ImageDataFormat.Bdv; // TODO: https://github.com/mobie/mobie-io/issues/131
-        else if (lowerCase.endsWith( ".ome.tif" ) || lowerCase.endsWith( ".ome.tiff" ))
+        else if (lowerCase.endsWith( ".ome.tif" ) || lowerCase.endsWith( ".ome.tiff" ) )
             return ImageDataFormat.BioFormats;
         else if (lowerCase.endsWith( ".tif" ) || lowerCase.endsWith( ".tiff" ))
             return ImageDataFormat.Tiff;
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ else if (lowerCase.endsWith( ".h5" ))
         else if (lowerCase.endsWith( ".toml" ))
             return ImageDataFormat.Toml;
         else
-            return ImageDataFormat.ImageJ;
+            return ImageDataFormat.BioFormats;
     }
 
     public boolean inMemory()
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/embl/mobie/io/SpimDataOpener.java b/src/main/java/org/embl/mobie/io/SpimDataOpener.java
index 2db7a3f5..e8f61793 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/embl/mobie/io/SpimDataOpener.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/embl/mobie/io/SpimDataOpener.java
@@ -128,7 +128,12 @@ public SpimDataOpener() {
             case Tiff:
                 return open(IOHelper.openTiffAsImagePlus( imagePath ), sharedQueue);
             case ImageJ:
-                return open(IJ.openImage(imagePath), sharedQueue);
+                ImagePlus imagePlus = IJ.openImage( imagePath );
+                if ( imagePlus == null )
+                {
+                    throw new RuntimeException("Could not open " + imagePath );
+                }
+                return open( imagePlus, sharedQueue);
             case BioFormats:
                 return openWithBioFormats(imagePath, sharedQueue);
             case BdvN5:
@@ -301,9 +306,7 @@ private SpimData openBdvOmeZarrS3(String path, SharedQueue queue) {
     public AbstractSpimData< ? > openWithBioFormats( String path, SharedQueue sharedQueue )
     {
         final AbstractSpimData< ? > spimData = openWithBioFormats( path );
-
         setSharedQueue( sharedQueue, spimData );
-
         return spimData;
     }