What's this Feather doing?

[clownchick22]

I brought it home yesterday and it's beautiful, definately adds some life to my tank until I upgrade the lighting for corals! However, after about an hour it started to what it looked like *Poop*? little curly brown things were comming out under the two little dot things in the center.. is this what it was doing? it did it about 3 times.

Here is a closeup of the action... (sorry not clear)