nanopore reads

I'm trying to run some nanopore test reads through mothur but am getting stuck at the very beginning. I was going to follow your pacbio example so was trying to start with fastq.info. My data are concatenated fastq.gz as spit out by minknow. But fastq.info doesn't seem to take .gz? is there another way that I should get these reads into a format for mothur?

thanks

Kendra