diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index 266a9e326..0099b6cac 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@
     "stomp-php/stomp-php": "^4",
     "php-http/guzzle6-adapter": "^1.1",
     "php-http/client-common": "^1.7@dev",
-    "richardfullmer/rabbitmq-management-api": "^2.0"
+    "richardfullmer/rabbitmq-management-api": "^2.0",
+    "predis/predis": "^1.1"
   },
   "require-dev": {
     "phpunit/phpunit": "^5.5",
@@ -48,7 +49,6 @@
     "empi89/php-amqp-stubs": "*@dev",
     "doctrine/doctrine-bundle": "~1.2",
     "kwn/php-rdkafka-stubs": "^1.0.2",
-    "predis/predis": "^1.1",
     "friendsofphp/php-cs-fixer": "^2"
   },
   "autoload": {
diff --git a/pkg/redis/RedisConnectionFactory.php b/pkg/redis/RedisConnectionFactory.php
index e691810ff..0a5bb80a7 100644
--- a/pkg/redis/RedisConnectionFactory.php
+++ b/pkg/redis/RedisConnectionFactory.php
@@ -94,11 +94,17 @@ public function createContext(): Context
     private function createRedis(): Redis
     {
         if (false == $this->redis) {
-            if (in_array('predis', $this->config['scheme_extensions'], true)) {
-                $this->redis = new PRedis($this->config);
-            } elseif (in_array('phpredis', $this->config['scheme_extensions'], true)) {
+            if (in_array('phpredis', $this->config['scheme_extensions'], true)) {
+                if (false == class_exists(\Redis::class)) {
+                    throw new \LogicException('You must install the redis extension to use phpredis');
+                }
+
                 $this->redis = new PhpRedis($this->config);
             } else {
+                if (false == class_exists(\Predis\Client::class)) {
+                    throw new \LogicException('The package "predis/predis" must be installed. Please run "composer req predis/predis:^1.1" to install it');
+                }
+
                 $this->redis = new PRedis($this->config);
             }
 
diff --git a/pkg/redis/composer.json b/pkg/redis/composer.json
index 878bc9cd5..dfbccfd04 100644
--- a/pkg/redis/composer.json
+++ b/pkg/redis/composer.json
@@ -8,8 +8,7 @@
     "require": {
         "php": "^7.1.3",
         "queue-interop/queue-interop": "0.7.x-dev",
-        "enqueue/dsn": "0.9.x-dev",
-        "predis/predis": "^1.1"
+        "enqueue/dsn": "0.9.x-dev"
     },
     "require-dev": {
         "phpunit/phpunit": "~5.4.0",